Archive for October 3rd, 2005

Tokyo Review… or the biggest and most expensive city in the world

It is a little late in coming, but here it is: My review of Tokyo. This will be broken up into a few parts.

We left from hiroshima early on a Sunday morning via Shinkansen [ nozomi super express.] Transit time took 4 hours with a few brief stops near Osaka, Kyoto and Yokohama. I used this time to sleep.

Once we arrived in Tokyo, we headed to our hotel in Shinjuku. After navigating through Tokyo Station we finally found the correct train and platform and headed to Shinjuku.

Shinjuku is the ’seedier’ part of Tokyo. Here is where ‘Kabukichou’ is. This is where a majority of the hostess , prostitutes and strip clubs are. Pretty fun place to walk around and get a neon tan. After checking into our hotel, we decided to head to Harajuku. It is two stops from Shinjuku and interesting during the day.


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