Tokyo

Nu har vi kommit tillbaka till studentboendet efter en mycket intressant helg i Tokyo. Jag och 6 andra begav oss dit i fredags och kom tillbaka efter tre dagar. 

Tokyo är världens största stad med 13 miloner invånare och med 35 miljoner i storstadsområdet. Inte nog med att det är mycket folk i Tokyo under vanlig vardag det var extra mycket folk under tiden när vi var där pga den Japanska högtiden som kallas "Golden week".  

 Därför kändes det som att vara i en myrstack ibland. Speciellt när vi var i tunnelbanan, varningar utfärdades på stationerna ibland pga att det var så mycket folk på dem. 

I likhet med Seoul så var Tokyo en stad som aldrig sover, restauranger pubar barer klubbar var alltid fyllda med människor.

En skillnad var dock hur folk betedde sig, i tunnelbanan var folk mer tystlåtna än i Seoul, att tala högt i mobilen är inte tillåtet i Tokyo. Att buga var mer populärt, tex när man lämnar restaurangen eller liknande.  

Jag tyckte om Tokyo väldigt mycket och tre dagar var alldeles för lite för att utforska en så stor stad. Priserna i Tokyo var inte heller så roliga... Tex en 20-25 min taxitur kostade nästan 700 kr.

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Some manga street show

 People dressing like this were a common scene in Tokyo

 Temple in central of Tokyo

 Not only were the design different from the Korean temples but the atmosphere as well, it was somehow very mysterious.

 Fortuneletters

 We were lucky to see a Japanese wedding, everyone was so quite though

 Look far away in the picture. You can understand that it was quite hard to walk around on the streets because of the amount of people present

 We ate in this place

 We ate some traditional Japanese food, it was soooo tasty!

 View over whole Tokyo, you can see Tokyo tower behind the bright light at the centre of the picture, we were going there at first but then we went in this scyscraper instead

 This picture should have been a lot brighter if it wasn't for the earthquake 2011. Before the earthquake the nuclear power stood for approxiately one third of Japans energyproduction, just recently Japan turned of their one and only working reactor. This has left big parts of Japan with less energy than needed. To illustrate this you can look on this video:

 At first glance this looks like a really nice lobby for some kind of company, but actually it is a kareokeplace!

 A reallly good and a really bad thing that we encountered in a restaurant in Tokyo. This is like an iPad which we order our food from, the convenience is really good. The bad thing with it though was that we ordered really much because of the easy access to it! 

Tokyo imperial palace, this is the main resience of the Emperor of Japan

 A typhical policeman 

A metroentrance, the Tokyo subway is the number one subway in the world for the ampunt of people using it during one year 

 On the train from the airport

 Asakusa temple, our hostel was located just nearby

 Shopping street at Asakusa

 Tokyo skytree, it is around 650 m and Tokyos highest building

 Entrance of Asakusa temple

 View on Tokyo

Political meeting close to Shibuya crossing

The famous dog Hachikō

Shibuya crossing, one really Big crossing!

Smart designed toilet in one of the restaurants, the water for refilling after flushing is pouring out of the tap right in to the water container. This wasn't the only strange toilet though, I also saw the electric ones just these ones was all in Japanese so I couldn't use any funcions... Except flushing of course ;-)

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We just recently returned back to our dormitory after one weekend spent in Tokyo. Me and 6 other friends went there in Friday and returned this Sunday.

Tokyo is the worlds biggest city with inhabitants and with 35 million in the Tokyo city area. Not enough that it is much people in Tokyo on normal days there were even more people out on the streets when we were there because of the Japanese holidays "Golden week". 


Because of the "Golden weeks" it felt like being in in the middle of an anthill many times. 


Like Seoul, Tokyo never sleeps, people could be seen on the streets all the time.

One difference was how people acted, in the subway it was forbidden to speak loudly in the phone and people were overall a little more quite in the subway. To bow and to bow longer was more common in Tokyo, they bowed when leaving the restaurant or something similar.


I liked Tokyo very muc but three days was to little for exploring such a big city. The prices wasn't so funny too, a ride with the taxi 20-25 mins costed around 100 us dollars