My second trip to Japan was kind of a “present” to myself. Mid-November I graduated, and two weeks later, I headed to Japan. This time, I would stay in the country for a full month, and would travel to the south/west of Japan. This time, I travelled by myself, but I would meet up with my Dutch friend in Tokyo, and stay with a friend of mine in Nagoya for a while.
This time, I flied with KLM from Amsterdam to Tokyo directly, which took 11 hours. I was lucky and there was no one sitting next to me on the plane, so I could stretch out and nap a little :D In the morning, I arrived in Tokyo. I took the train to central Tokyo, and somehow strange people just like to talk to me, because on the train this Chinese/German woman started to talk to me, in German. Speaking German wasn’t something I had been expecting in Tokyo…
I found my hotel pretty soon. This time I stayed in Aizuya Inn, a different one from the previous time that was a little more expensive, but was a bit bigger, cleaner and offered better facilities, such as various showers instead of two for the entire hotel. At the hotel, I also picked up my rental phone, which would prove to be very useful during my stay. Not only could I call and email my friends, but I could also easily update my Twitter account.
After I took a shower in the hotel and rested a bit, I went off again, to meet up with my friend for dinner in Shinjuku. We had okinomiyaki, which was quite good :) Afterwards, we went to meet up with another friend of us and went to a few bars. It was a lot of fun, but I was still pretty dead from the long plane flight, so I already went back to the hotel around ten. The Shinjuku area was amusing to me again, with lots of host looking like copies of each other and the usual group of transvestites at a street corner XD
