The Dutch Tokyoite: Tokyo is big

@Tokyo, Japan

Konnichi wa!

I am writing you in a state of severe jetlag, dehydration and cultural shock, so bear with me if this post is not of a prozaic high standard.

After being roasted for 12 hours in the JAL airplane at an estimated constant temperature of around 30C, there we were: Tokyo. We were efficiently ousted through customs and our luggage was a three-minute wait.

After an introductory speech by the institute, naturally the first thing we did after we were set free to explore is find a nice sake bar. I can tell you, 1 sake + jetlag is sufficient to put your lights out. So that was a short evening.

After having done all the necessary foreigner paperwork at city hall the next morning, a few classmates and I headed out for some lunch. We found this authentic japanese restaurant where we intended to eat some interesting local stuff, However, after asking for a table in Japanese they shouted to each other in Chinese leaving us to slurp some noodles wearing a paper apron and leaving me to speaking Chinese when the Japanese got to difficult....Totemo benri desu! How convenient!

The afternoon was spent in Ginza, an extremely expensive area which dwarfs Amsterdam's p.c. hooftstraat and is Tokyo's answer to Manhattan's 5th avenue. Every Japanese person on the street was perfectly dressed and stylish as hell. Then I went to Shibuya, where the young people hang out and are perfectly dressed and too stylish for comfort. Shibuya is what I typically imagined tokyo to be. I sat at Starbucks (sorry, it was a nice location, ok?) and took some pictures of the view of people crossing on a wednesday afternoon. .
I hope to find some non-stylish people in this city to boast my self-esteem. So will probably head for Akihabara tomorrow; the 'nerd' part of town. Put they're probably still stylish as hell.

Anyway, had a great day today. I think I'll stay here for a while. Seven months or so.