Today Olivia and her little friend Hannah took me sight seeing. She is half black American and half Japanese, TINY, and veryyy self confident marching right up to people for directions and chatting a way a million words a minute. Olivia and I met Hannah at a metro station near Olivia’s old house after at least an hour of standing in packed trains; and when I say packed I mean you can’t move and hardly can fit or breathe. They have people whose job it is push you into the train to let the doors close because they get so packed. You could literally lift your feet of the ground and still be standing. Thankfully it isn’t like American subways though; everyone is clean and dressed in suits, friendly, and the trains are very clean. I am not used to standing in a moving vehicle so when most of the people appeared to be reading, sleeping, and doing their make up I was trying to stay upright while we swayed and made sudden stops.
First we went to a little temple and inside a museum with very old painting that Olivia translated into being worth three million dollars. There were also samurai swords, artifacts, and outfits that were worn when putting out fire. Also there were these things that were kind of like little intricate houses which were carried in celebrations or something...I’m not positive though because they didn’t really know how to describe them to me in English. Then we threw money into this thing in front of the temple and said a prayer. After that for about a dollar you can get a fortune of sorts. After you read it you fold and tie it to this thing (even though I wanted to keep mine). Olivia said my fortune wasn’t very good though and that I should not hope too much for what I want.
After that we walked through a street that is famous. I’m not exactly sure what for or what the name of it is but they said people come to film there, that it was old, and something about how the shops are important. We then went to a sort of mall. Except it is kind of one store at the same time called ABAB. Many teenagers hangout there and it is all sort of one store but many stores inside of it. There are no walls or anything but different sections have different styles and people to ring you up. Hannah kept trying to get me to buy things or try them on but I had no doubt in my mind that everything would be way to small. Everyone wears uniforms and jobs have different uniforms even if they are working for the same company or in the same place.
Inside of the store we got lunch. It was one of those self serve places all you can eat sort of thing. They had rice and pastas, a bell would ring and a new kind of food would come out and you could go up and get it. But the main thing that they had was dessert. Tons and tons of desert, all of it was soooo good. I wish that I had been hungrier so I could have had more! Many, many people were waiting to get in and eat the line was very long, so while waiting, I went and got some gifts;)
Once we were done eating we went to this store that was loud and huge. It had soooo much stuff! Mostly just little nick knacks and characters from books/tv/movies. But you could get anything. After we bought some stuff from there and got overwhelmed by it all we left. We went to a city (all of this is in Tokyo but in different parts) that had many many more tourists. We went to a huge electronic store. I mean HUGE, much bigger than in the U.S. and many, many stories high. Hannah wanted to get a high school musical game (her favorite character is Chad) and Olivia had to get a new pen for her game boy.
By this time we have been walking around and riding trains for about five or six hours. After this we went to a HUGE bookstore. Everything is huge! Haha. We went to KFC after that and finally got to sit down and rest. They tired to figure out what to do next but I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, considering I have no idea what there was to do or what was nearby. But they were persistent in asking so finally after many questions and my vague answers we decide to just go home. It was a very fun day. I have gotten to see some city and some country so overall this trip feels very well rounded.
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