Tokyo

Even though I have visited Tokyo before it still gives my the creeps by its sheer size, skyscrapers and buildings as far as the horizon & beyond, a lot of blingbling, screens, sounds, food stalls & karaoke bars everywhere, and soo many people. At this point I always hear Crocodile Dundee saying, well, if so many people decide to live at the same place together, they must definitely be very friendly people and all like each other ;-).

On Thursday I had the chance to meet Yasuko, whom I have encountered last New Years Eve in Zermatt together with a few other friends. We enjoyed a very nice Japanese dinner and Yasuko also gave me a few insights into Japanese life & society. Thanks a bunch for this, Yasuko :-)

I then also really enjoyed the weekend with my friend René, who just flew over from Singapore for having a few beers with me :-) Of course we couldn't refrain from visiting our most beloved bar, the Shibuya rockbar (we just called it that way) in order to listen to some good American and Japanese headbanging music and to have a few submarine Jägermeister whatever drinks ;-)

So at around half three maybe we decided to hop on a taxi to the Tsukiji fish market to watch the tuna auction show and to have a good sushi brekafast thereafter. And even though we had to wait until six in the morning, it was really worth a visit.

So next station will be Okinawa, where I hope to disover some roots of the Karate do and to find some nice beaches. Provided that the current taifun wont shoot my plane off the sky of course :-)