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July 31, 2005: I arrived in Tokyo Japan wandering the streets in amazement, excited about the life I was about to embark on. I will never forget how scared I was too, nor the look on our faces when we had our first glance at a train schedule written in kanji. A year later, July 31,2006, I found myself again wandering the streets of Tokyo, yet I was no longer like a fish out of water. Walking the same streets that I walked exactly a year before in Shibuya, I couldn't help but be nostalgic over the past year and what has happened between then and now.
TOKYO! Absolute Insanity From Where it All Began a Year Ago....
Casey Lary2007-03-08 21:05:26
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July 31, 2005: I arrived in Tokyo Japan wandering the streets in amazement, excited about the life I was about to embark on. I will never forget how scared I was too, nor the look on our faces when we had our first glance at a train schedule written in kanji. A year later, July 31,2006, I found myself again wandering the streets of Tokyo, yet I was no longer like a fish out of water. Walking the same streets that I walked exactly a year before in Shibuya, I couldn't help but be nostalgic over the past year and what has happened between then and now. A full year in Japan! Growing up I never thought I would be living in a foreign country, especially as one as foreign as Japan! Yet here I was, beginning my second year in the Land of the Rising Sun. I knew that I wanted to go back to Tokyo before leaving Japan. It just so happened that timing made it so that I was back in Tokyo, exactly a year later from when I first came to Japan. My second trip to Tokyo was so incredible because of the things I did and the timing because I got to reflect on an incredible year, meet a bunch of the newbies, and meet up with a bunch of friends while in Tokyo.
Bottom line: Tokyo is absolutely crazy! There is no other city like it in the world. It is so big, so many lights, so much going on, and nothing ever stops moving. Hiroshima, which is considered one of the larger cities in Japan, does not hold a candle to the craziness of Tokyo. From the moment I arrived on Friday night until I left late on Tuesday, I did not stop going, and if I did, Tokyo was going to pass me by! Always so much to see and do! It was so incredible!!
I arrived Friday night. Lisa was doing an internship at the Canadian Embassy so she was up there for a month. She met me at the train station and headed out for a small night on the town. We exited the Shibuya subway station and walked out into utter chaos. People were everywhere! Shibuya has one of the
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