Tokyo - Day Three
Japan, the land of Artificially Intelligent Toilets. The toilet in the lobby here has a feature whereby you can play a sound to cover up the sound of the toilet flushing. hmm. cool. So I flushed and then pressed the button. The sound-to-cover-up-the-sound-of-the-toilet-flushing, was, the sound of a toilet flushing!?!? Mkay. I need to get some closure on that one later...the toilet upstairs has the heating-of-the-seat feature on all the time but I think I may have figured out how turn that one off.
New word today is Ohayo Gonzaimasu (good morning). Obviously I'm a bit behind in where I should be in learning Japanese. I've been defaulting to saying konichiwa all day and night, which is not even close.
Off to Kyoto in a few hours. I will get a good luck sign at one of the temples at put it in an auspicious location for Julie and Katie to have good luck this week. Can't wait to hear the news!!
Mike and Julie's baby news
I will finish this post when I return tonight.
I rented a family in Kyoto. Tanaka-san and Mrs. Tanaka-san were nice enough to help me when I was lost and we ended up doing a mini-Temple tour together (more good meeting-people Kharma).
The Tanaka's
There are so many temples in Kyoto that we ended up only going to 4. Very interesting but you have to see the pics - wait till I post them I guess.
Kyoto Temple Pics
View of Kyoto
The Shinkansen was very fast and efficient but for the money I was expecting a bit more for my $235. The seats were small, although comfortable, and it was just barely air conditioned adequately.
Had a great glazed donut at Starbucks in Kyoto. The service was spectacular as usual. Everywhere I have been there has been top notch service. Everyone is always polite and understanding.
The train back was uneventful and I crashed back at the Sawanoya crib at about 11:30.
New word today is Ohayo Gonzaimasu (good morning). Obviously I'm a bit behind in where I should be in learning Japanese. I've been defaulting to saying konichiwa all day and night, which is not even close.
Off to Kyoto in a few hours. I will get a good luck sign at one of the temples at put it in an auspicious location for Julie and Katie to have good luck this week. Can't wait to hear the news!!
Mike and Julie's baby news
I will finish this post when I return tonight.
I rented a family in Kyoto. Tanaka-san and Mrs. Tanaka-san were nice enough to help me when I was lost and we ended up doing a mini-Temple tour together (more good meeting-people Kharma).
The Tanaka's
There are so many temples in Kyoto that we ended up only going to 4. Very interesting but you have to see the pics - wait till I post them I guess.
Kyoto Temple Pics
View of Kyoto
The Shinkansen was very fast and efficient but for the money I was expecting a bit more for my $235. The seats were small, although comfortable, and it was just barely air conditioned adequately.
Had a great glazed donut at Starbucks in Kyoto. The service was spectacular as usual. Everywhere I have been there has been top notch service. Everyone is always polite and understanding.
The train back was uneventful and I crashed back at the Sawanoya crib at about 11:30.
posted by TonyThreeTimes at 10.10.04
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