15 September 2007

Niigata - Tokyo

We have european food for breakfast in a french style shop in the train station. After looking for a while for pharmacy where they speak english, we found out that they don't sell anything without prescription. After some fights, we manage to get a seringe at the pharmacy of the train station and then oxygenated water in a shop (need to write the H2O2 formula in my notebook to make myself understandable).

There we find a sushi train for lunch, where the tea is included and we can order the food we want, if not on the train. The only I manage to say in japanese is salmon.

While walking around we see a street dances show, under a terrible strong sun. I buy some sandals.

We take the shinkansen train to tokyo. At Ueno it was not easy to find the tourist office, again the maps were not very clear and no guard seem to understand the word 'tourist'. when we find we manage to get a cheap but also weak ryokan. At tokyo we should have thought the things are a bit more expensive.
We do a last shopping for some souvenirs and i buy a jumper and Eva a t-shirt.
In the evening we try to find a bar, we follow the indications they gave us in tourist office but the bar was closed... Finally we end up in a small bar where a japanese guy start talking to us, even if he was not capable to speak in english.

Before going to bed I go for a last common bath.

No comments: