Tokyo, day two

July 27th, 2006

Another good but exhausting day exploring Tokyo. This morning we headed to my lovely alma mater, Waseda University, so I could show Niq around my ex-campus. Admittedly, it’s an ugly campus, and the most famous building (a clock tower thingy that even got printed on Japanese stamps!) was completely covered in scaffolding. There were a lot of college-aged English speakers that were kind of freaking me out, but I handled the situation all right by not glaring at them or pointing out the fact that they were talking unnecessarily loudly. Stupid Americans.

Lunch was ramen, which I normally avoid at all costs in Kyushu. Kyushu has a strange version of ramen made from pork broth, which radiates a smell so severe that you can tell more than a block away when you’re approaching a Kyushu ramen shop. Tokyo ramen is far more delicious, sans stink and cloudy brown broth. This stuff is GOOD. And cheap! The only thing missing would be any recognizable vitamin, mineral, fresh vegetable, lean cut of meat, or anything else nutritionally redeeming. But mmmmm, good.

Anyways, we’re headed off to climb Mt. Fuji tomorrow so if you don’t hear from me on Saturday then I probably fell off the top. Or it errupted, but you’ll probably hear about that. Gambarimasu!

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