The country of the rising sun. 🇯🇵
Did you recognise the new theme? Taking the photo took us only half an hour so give us some celebration. 🙌🏼🍾🎉
Thanks, i really felt that 🙂
Now let’s get serious again, this is a serious blog. *puts on the serious face*
I took my time for this post. I had to because Japan, especially the cities, is an overflow of information. Even now, after a week in this beautiful country, I’m not wholly convinced which information to share with you guys and what is just trivia. Let’s go through it in a sort of review way, starting with what I’d be curious about the most.
Let’s be honest, there are some stereotypes about the country of the rising sun. We spent the first couple days in Tokyo. Speaking of which: Tokyo is indeed massive! I mean, I didn’t get the feeling that it’s narrow, or too many people on too less space. We both found it quite spacious in general. There are obviously some areas where it is very crowded, but that’s in every megapolis. But there are some places, for example around the Imperial Palace, that don’t give you the feeling you of being in a city that is one of the top 10 busiest in the world. One of the districts we’ve seen is Akihabara, also known as the electric town. If you need some technology supplies you’ll find it there. If it’s not sold there, it doesn’t exist. Okay that was maybe one too much. But seriously from the most basic hairdryer to the trunk lightbulb of your Mercedes Benz you get it all there. The facades are covered with anime and other comics. Commercials, advertisments, storefronts, everything is colourful, vibrant and loud. It seems that the Japanese let all their emotions out here. In a weird way. Even McDonalds has produced Japanese style commercials with animated and emotionally exaggerating caracters.
I was in an arcade too. For 30 seconds approximately. It’s loud, it’s pink and it’s strange to see men in suits smoking and gaming on a friday morning. It gets weirder and darker on the upper floors, so I pretty much just took a look and left.
After three days or so we left Tokyo and made our way towards Mt. Fuji. It occurrd to me as we got closer to our destination: In Japan worlds collide. Just 2 or 3 hours outside of Tokyo we headed to a rather small town called Fujiyoshida. Just the train into the town was a suprise itself: It is a partner train to the Swiss Gotthard- and Matterhornbahn. Everything was advertised with places to see in our homecountry. Fujiyoshida was sleepy and cold and due to this and the scenic view on Mt. Fuji in the background it kind of reminded my on Zermatt. There were not many people around and that’s what we enjoyed after the first days in Tokyo.
I feel like the Japanese are a little ahead of us in terms of efficiency and structure. Best example is the Shinkansen. Also known as ‘the bullet train’ this beast shoots you all over the country in just a few hours. Last years overall average delay was 53 seconds. This is amazing! (And a little rediculous, ain’t it?)
Trainstations take a while to get used to. Besides the structure, the punctuality and the overall cleanliness there are some weird sounds played all the time. Everytime a train approaches or is about to leave a sound is being played so you recognise it. Imagine that in a busy city like Tokyo they make ot even more nervous with those sounds. But all they have in mind is efficiency I guess and it’s quite usefull to know when you only have a couple seconds left until the train leaves.
So. After the exhausting writing of this post I want to sincerely apologise for it’s pength and give you my respect if you’ve read it all. There are truly a lot of things to write about Japan, it’s a truly diverse and beautiful country. The best is to find it out yourself 😉
I need another coffee now. See you guys soon :)
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