Konichiwa all the way from Japan.
We landed pretty late in Tokyo so we couldnt see much of the city when we arrived. But one thing is for sure Japan is a well organized country. Sometimes a little complicated but when you figured it out it ticks like clockwork. The train for example, you reserve you seat and that saves you the rush to get good seats. And when it says on the schedule that its going to arrive a certain time rest asured that it will arive exactly that time.
The next day we saw Tokyo by day light and WOW ive never seen a country that clean before. But the weird thing is that there arent alot of trashbins to throw your garbage in and there are a lot of people in Tokyo. Especially around the Shibuya intersection (the busiest intersection of the world).

The busiest intersection of the world, Shibuya!

I think the people in Japan are so disciplinned that they hold on to their rubbish untill they find a trashcan or untill they get home. In Holland if we dont find a trashcan within 5 seconds of needing one, we kinda “accidently” drop it and act like we didnt mean to that. Yeah, we can learn a thing or two from the Japanese.

After the Shibuya intersection, wich looked really crazy when the people had the green light to cross the street, we went for sushi in the famous Harujuku neighbourhood.

What can i say…… I was hungry!

In this neighbourhood the girls tend to dress really crazy more crazy then we’re used to from Japanese people. Sadly enough we saw only a few girls that took the effort of dressing up even though it was 35 degrees, I cant blame them. I was already sweating in just a t-shirt. Back to the sushi, that was a cool experience because this was a sushirestaurant where you dont actually order your sushi but you wait until the kind of sushi you wanted rolled by on a conveyor belt. That sometimes meant you had bad luck if somebody before you keeps grabbing the sushi you also want to eat. But if that happen you can ask the chef if he could make one extra suhsi dish just for you.

The next day we got up freakishly early and all because Sanne is a big fan of visiting fishmarkets, she just loves the way the people are bidding and selling their fish. And Tokyo happens to have one of the biggest fishmarkets in world, so we woke up at 04.30 and we got there aroung 06.00. But when we got there we thought that we were a little bit early because it was really quiet, just a few people that were walking around and preparing fish. After a walkaround we just asked a guard what time the market was going to get busy. His answer really made me wish i was still in bed because of all days that we want to go there, they had one of there few vacationdays and really dont have many vacationdays these fishermen. Just our luck i guess. To cheer ourselfs up we went to Disneyland or DisneySea to be precise. This was alot of fun. We took a few rides and even though it was really busy, standing in line for 80 minutes for just one ride that takes only 4 minutes tops. But the lines didnt feel long at all, all because a system they have that ive never seen before. One, on the rides they have like 8 carts that fit 12 people per cart so the line is always moving and because of that the lines dont feel that long when your standing in line. And two, the FASTPASS!!! This is a genious thing. With this pass you can go to the ride that you want to go on and scan your ticket for a fastpass and you’ll get a pass with a reserved timeslot. In this timeslot, a 30 minutes window, you can get in front of the line. This meant that we reserved a timeslot and instead of just waiting till the timeslot, we had the time to get in line for two or three other rides. This made our visit at the park really efficient, i guess these Japanese are rubbing off on us.

Our third day in Japan we were going to Yokohama because the evening before Sanne and I were aproached by this lady that worked for a tv company. She needed foreigners for her segment where they pointed out the funny, akward or even

Our 15 minutes of fame in Japan!

painfull moments that the languagebarrier created between tourists and older Japanese people (which don’t speak english at all) especially in traditional restaurants. So in Yokohama we were seated in a traditional Soba noodles restaurant with no explanation what so ever. We had to figure out ourselfs what the tradition was and if we were doing anything wrong. The tradition with this type of restaurant was that everytime you finished a little bowl of noodles the waitress standing next to us quickly through another scoop of noodle in your bowl and the only way you could stop eating was by …..ah well here is a videoclip so you can see our debut on Japanese tv.

All of the above made Tokyo a real good way to be introduced with Japan. Sayonara people!!