First day in Japan!

WoW! こんにちは JAPAN!

First of all, for the ones who didn't knew about that, we had the chance to fly with SWISS in Business due to lack of place in Economy. This was a great trip with excellent cabin crew! Good food, good game : TETRIS and nice view! Thanks again SWISS.

10 am (GMT+9), first steps of this one year Japanese trip beginning in Tokyo Narita Airport! As my two past experiences, I LOVE JAPAN! This country is not just different! It's a totally different world! Everything is different : Language, people, food, phones, dogs...!

After taking the Keisei Express from Narita Airport to Tokyo, we arrived at our nice and small Hostel : SAKURA Hotel in the Chiyoda district near the Jinbocho Metro station. It is small but perfect for two new Swiss Engineers! After changing some clothes because of the weather (Zurich : Cold and Cloudy / Tokyo : 17° Sunny) we decided to go for a Walk in the Electronic district : Akihabara (Yeah I know we are Geeks!) to try to find a Cell Phone for Jerôme with 3G Band. The iPhone works perfectly and with the some many WIFI Spots, I can rapidly check my mails, send WhatsApps or Pings and Call anyone with Fring (ArisM) or Skype (arismaroonian)!

Akihabara is soooo CraZy with GEEEEEEEEKS everywhere looking for new games, phones, computers and running from one shop to another! The noise there is crazy, so many people shouting things at you, sounds from TVs etc...! Anyway after a long time, we founded that getting a phone here is pretty hard! At least you need an Alien Card to buy a Prepaid Phone (Cheap Japanese model) or if you want a real crazy gadget Japanese phone you need to sign for a two-year contract! One last option is to get a contract with SIM Card (Rare in Japan, phones here don't have SIM Cards) to put it in the iPhone. I will look at the offers next week after getting my Alien Card in Kanazawa.

After all these electrical emotions we went to Ueno which is also CraZy! So many people walking everywhere but one nice thing : the Ueno-Koen (Park). It has a lot of almost blossomed Cherry trees! Very nice but we hadn't the courage to stay there longer due to our feets!

And so we are back from our first day in Tokyo! Very long day...!

Day 2 : Fish Market of Tsukiji at 5am if we can make it :D