Voice of Will: Loving Tokyo

2006-09-15 - 12:23 p.m.

Ah tokyo.
What can I say to describe the feelings and the place? It isn't china!!!! That is a good start.
This place is so different from China, and america, and yet it is so similar. I have been to some large cities in my time (chicago, LA, Shanghai, beijing) but I must say Tokyo is the BEST.

There isn't just one thing I can point at either. This city is so clean. There is NO garbage on the streets, and the people pickup the front of their houses every day. There is very little noticible pollution. The sky is clear and crisp (when it isn:t raining). The people are very polite and nice (especially if you try to speak japanese first. even if you can only say I don't understand, or I speak only a little japanes, the people then switch to english and try to help.) There are tons of people who speak at least some form of english.

The city is a maze of little roads winding through the houses, businesses, and subways. There are businesses in the middle of alleys who do brisk businesses.

My favorite place so far is the local fruit/veggie place. It is in a back alley, next to a cemetary (they are all over the place) with thislittle old man who is trying to teach me the names of the veggies in japanese. He is awesome. More later have to do homework.