What I learned and saw on the first day of 2010

by mo on 01/2/2010

Four Lessons Learned on 1/1/10:

1) Don’t EVER. And I mean EVER. Attempt to go to Asakusa on New Years. That might have been the largest crowd I have ever seen.
2) Bring your passport when checking into hotels in Tokyo, aka don’t leave it in Kobe. Whoops.
3) The hot drinks that come out of vending machines on the street and convenience stores are hot enough to hurt your hands. Mostly because they are in metal cans.
4) Kinki Kids has at least 100,000 fans, and I met all of them. About half are girls under 17. About half are women over 45.

Five Strange things seen on 1/1/10:

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Unenthusiastic Daikon, Asakusa

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Star Wars Pachinko, Tokyo Dome City

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Unko-san characters (yes, it is what it looks like, “unko” means “poop”), Tokyo Dome City

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Cold Cre Hot Creape, Tokyo Dome City

Apparently not only can you cross crepes and creeps to get creapes, you also can stop halfway in the middle of their name to decide whether they are hot or cold. FYI it was delicious. When I am fat I’m blaming you, Japan, and your non-Japanese yet delicious snack food.

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School of Lock (for those who were rejected from School of Rock?), Tokyo Dome City

There are 4 comments in this article:

  1. 3/01/2010Ayaka says:

    ここ日本語、大丈夫かな？
    のぞみから、帰ってきてるってきいたよ～！
    元気？
    成人式、来るんだって～？
    会ってゆっくり話したいなｗ

  2. 3/01/2010Dave says:

    That starwars thing looks SO AWESOME.

  3. 4/01/2010mo says:

    @Ayaka 全然いいよ日本語でも^^　そうそう、成人式行く！！だって、５時からの同窓会のやつ〜　たまたまのぞみちゃん道でばったり会って、二人とも成人式行くって言っといたから、また１１日にゆっくりの話のが楽しみ！！

    @Dave IT WAS AWESOME.

  4. 6/01/2010Micah says:

    WTF Unkosan. I shouldn’t be surprised.

    Also, my wife and I were just talking about missing hot drinks in steel cans.

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