Comments on: Asakusa http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Menouthis http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:04:34 +0000 http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/11/asakusa/#comment-24 David, bicycling is *very* common here in Japan. Most people, especially students have a bike to ride too. Actually, those bikes are far more dangerous for the pedestrian than the cars because the bikes go through the same pedestrian line as people who walk. So sometimes when you walk leisurely, there is a chance that you almost get hit by a passing bike if you’re not careful. I think this almost happened to me way to often now that I start to get anxious everytime I walk around with a walkman.

]]> By: David http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:27:39 +0000 http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/11/asakusa/#comment-23 Whoa, the pictures are *gorgeous* — they look gorgeous! Just as a quick question, I noticed that there are a lot more bicycles in the pictures than one would expect in, say, Chicago — is bicycling really /that/ common, or not so much?

PS: Menouthis, you are awesome :)

]]> By: Melissa http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:56:33 +0000 http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/11/asakusa/#comment-22 About the interaction, well that was an obvious, I meant more around the lines of making friends, but you’ve only been there like two or three days, so probably a dumb question. Is it hard walking through the streets, is their many pedestrians in your area. I saw this show and everyone was all rushing places and mad busy. I’d probably trip and be run over by thousands of ppl, lol.

]]> By: inutikidude http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:31:19 +0000 http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/11/asakusa/#comment-21 Thats kool how you eat there (about puting your order in a vending machine)!! I wish i can try it something. Hehe i just love your pictures ^^

]]> By: Menouthis http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/10/asakusa/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:30:04 +0000 http://www.kongetsu.com/2005/04/11/asakusa/#comment-20 No Make Girl, the weather has been horrid in the past two days. I can’t go out anywhere far without feeling like I’m in Antartica. I was planning to go to some areas in Tokyo but in the end have to cancel the plan because it’s too insane to contemplate walking to some far-off place in this kind of weather. I ended up just going back and forth to Akihabara.

It’s a shame, really since tomorrow I already have to leave Tokyo and go to Okazaki for my study. But I think there’ll be a free time around May and I’ll still have to go back to Tokyo at the end of my study. So hopefully the weather will be better then. I can’t believe the weather is supposed to get better on Thursday when I’m not in the city anymore.

Epi, the hostel has an internet connection (I have to pay for it but at the rate of 525 Yen per day, I think it’s a steal). And yes, I brought my laptop with me and since most laptops have 100-240v, there’s no voltage problem here. I simply had to purchase one of those connectors to change the plug to Japanese plug. But other than that, it’s not too much of a problem. I don’t know what will happen once arrived in my dormitory though. They have internet access but I think they block some ports. I hope they don’t block the BT port.

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