The Japanese (or maybe just the city dwellers) are so nonchalant about squeezing - whether into trains or elevators or clubs. Shoulder-to-shoulder, foot-to-foot. Yet they all still somehow manage to fall asleep, read a book or newspaper, or play on their DS with their free hand. I followed suit in finishing some homework due that morning and got quite turned off at the crowd (bigger than usual because of a slight rain delay), but suddenly the man in front of me decided to get up and alight at the next station, leaving me with the precious opportunity of actually getting a seat and do my homework without having to care about the pushing and balancing on the train. It was an amazingly pleasant morning ride.
Update on last Saturday:
SATURDAY... (Part 1)
was one lonnnnggg day.
Field trip to Asakusa (また！) in the morning, taking the Sumida River cruise for a view of Asakusa from below before viewing Tokyo from the top of Shinjuku Metropolitan Government Building.
from Ueno station..
to Hamamatsucho.
View of Odaiba (yet to go there this time!) from Hamamatsucho
View of Tokyo from Shinjuku Metropolitan
Tokyo is one packed city ain't it? Almost no visible space between buildings.
Countless umbrellas destroyed every windy day - a dorm mate had already lost 3 to the relentless wind. They're cheap though, from 100yen a piece. "Disposable" umbrellas, anyone?
More from the okonomiyaki shop the other day:
How to cook monjayaki
