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So I tried the internet connection in the room last night, and nothing. So I could not upload the 170 pictures I ended up taking. The wait until the next chance I get. Until then I'll need to take care of this blister onboth my feet, which are in the sae spot on both.
The reason for th blisters, got up, at 430am, just couldn't sleep. Force myself to fall back asleep for another hour eventually. Then it was 830. Shower and check out and since i had 2 hours to kill i decided to walk back to Ueno. No Problem, just a straight shot. Went to a coffee shop and bought what i thought was a danish, but it was more like a breakfast pizza, and the coffee was delicious. Stood in line to get my JR pass to use the train system and went to Customer Assisstance to find out how to get to the check in hotel.
They were very helpful in showing me where the hotel was, unfortunetly they directed me to the wrong hotel. I overshot the destination by 2 exits. So get more information on where the hotel was and kept moving, all this while dragging my suitcase with my backpack at the ready. The woman at the wrong hotel suggested i use the subway station, but I just wanted to keep with the trains, and I didn't know where the subway stations were, so I was off for what should have been a 15min walk, which turne out to be 45min of zig-zagging through Shingawa. And found the hotel, only the balls of my feet were hurting, and made it up to the room and it was around 2 o'clock, and I didn't just want to lay around and rest, of course not,that's not why I'm here. So I went to look around the temple next to the hotel and took a ride up to the very top of Tokyo Tower. Amazing, I could see until the clouds stopped me.
So after waiting in line at the Tower to get in and such, I treated myself to a rum and coke in the hotel bar. Quite, Nice. And then it was time to meet the group I'm with. Everyone is so very nice and friendly, and way more traveled than I an. Sarra has taken 6 months to just go travel th world with her husband and everyone else has seen their share of the world. My roommate Asim is a really cool guy, and he's from Canada.
After dinner a group of us decided to go wander around Rappongi to take a quick look a all the bright shiny lights. And get asked repeatedly if we want to go into the bar we were passing, definetly big on the hard sell tactics there. After about a couple hours we headed back. Feet had taked quite a toll through the day. But worth it reguardless.
Glad to hear your roomie’s cool and you found your hotel! Pop those blisters and get some band-aids on em! And that’s an order!! Have a great time! Can’t wait to see more pictures!
Hey Chris… Long time no see you… This is Chang who worked with you as a team in Kent State Univ. I am glad to hear you. You visited in Japan. I belive that you had a great time. Send me more story if you have more.