Living in Tokyo

Ermmm. heres a platform at shinjuku station, aparently the busiest in Japan (perhaps the world).
Note it’s full of Japanese! On the first 2 days, apart from at the airport, I only saw about 12 foreigners (European/American). I was expecting to see a lot more especially since I’m staying in central tokyo click here for map. I’m staying in a place called 北新宿　(kita shinjuku) which is in 新宿区　(shinjuku ku) a central district in Tokyo. You can send me an email to my mobile, I’ve used my shinjuku domain to redirect mail to my phone, (this is encoded to stop spammers) chris then the ‘at‘ symbol the shinjuku a . and mobi – the Japs don’t use SMS text any more, all phones send and recieve emails now.

My Japanese is going well, I didn’t speak any English at all to Tomo for the first 2 days, and still now we mostly seem to talk in Japanese! It also helps a lot being able to read some Japanese as English is only really used for fun on packaging, instructions, signs etc. Although the station names are written in English too. So I have plenty of vocabulary for interacting with random Japanese, watch this space for mischeif…

On the train!