Day 2 - Feb 21, 2010 - Touring around the Town

Day 2:
I was tired last night and hit the sack around 7pm local time. I promptly arose after 8 hours of sleep, at 3am... Chatted with Jen online for a bit and responded to some emails. The Olympics were on and I have to say I love the Japanese National TV coverage. The ski jumping was on. You don't just see highlights of their 3 jumpers. They showed every person jump from all heats. Awesome. Same with the Super G.

I was hungry around 7am so I ventured out and found a convenience store across from the Hotel and had a "can of hot coffee." Tasty. Jumped on the Yamanote train to Kanda station. I wanted to walk around the neighborhood I will be living in to see what's around there. After that, I walked about 1km to the amazing electronics district to find the city nerds waiting in line for the stores to open up at 9am on Sunday. I was right there with them, proudly. I found a tiny pocket camera that I might pick up in the future for everyday snapshot use, the Canon IXY10S (SD3500 in US), touch screen, wide angle, accepts wifi SDHC cards, 14megapixel, its small and it only weighs 5oz! Spent a few hours window shopping just in awe of the amazing goods and extremely friendly service within the electronics shops.

I had lunch at tiny noodle shop outside of Akihabara train station. You put your money in the machine at the door, select what you want and bring your ticket to the counter. The two elderly gentlemen cooks, make it to order and then in a few minutes you sit on a bar stool and slurp it up next to everyone else. Tasty and filling, not bad for $5. After that I walked around the electronics district and even purchased an adapter for my three pronged laptop power charger. Japan uses similar electric voltage as the USA and prong config, but rarely is the grounded three prong receptacle found outside the GFI in the bathroom. $5 prong adapter and I was on my way.

Today's pics were uploaded to smugmug:



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I walked many a mile today, my feet need a good hot tub soaking. It's 6pm local time and I'm not the least bit sleepy, so I'm hoping to get to sleep around 10-11pm local time so I can start my work week out properly. Going to Asia is a different type of Jet Lag than Europe, it's the opposite for me right now. Took me many days in Europe to not be sleepy... I'm barely sleepy here, we'll see how that works, I'm sure a wall is coming soon.

I'm uploading my pics to two sites right now. smugmug and Facebook.