Japan!!!
First day of Japan I left the ship in Yokohama with a group of 9 girls to make our way to Tokyo. We all took the train to Tokyo but it definitely wasn't easy. All of the stops and machines are in Japanese so our first challenge was to find people who could speak some English and help us out. Once you get your ticket you then have to figure out which train to take and these stations are huge, you walk down the stairs of the station and there are hundreds of stores; clothing and food which amazed me because you never had to leave the station, everything was there.
Once we made it to Tokyo station one of the girls left her cell phone on the train so we had to go through the process of seeing if anyone turned it in and surprisingly after a day in Tokyo her phone was turned in! The people in Japan are the nicest people I have ever met.
We probably didn't get to our hotel until later in the afternoon but that didn't stop us from getting onto the subway and setting forth towards Harajuku district but once we got off the station we found this really cute street that had such pretty lights, it was almost out of the movie. It was so quiet and there weren't many people but we ended up finding this restaurant that was basically under the ground where we had our first sushi meal in Japan! We all got the sushi dinner, which had about 9 pieces of sashimi as well as miso soup. I also tried hot sake for the first time and a sabarro beer; some of the girls attempted a sake bomb even though I am sure that isn't custom in Japan. In Tokyo people are very quiet and their normal voices are like our whispering voices and so we were very loud compared to them. Plus the girls I was with are abnormally loud to begin with.
After our delicious sushi dinner a few of the girls who weren't extreme sushi lovers like myself were still hungry so we stopped by Shakeys, a pizza joint, for some pizza. I was full but they all had pizza and they said it was really good. Once everyone was full we made our way back to our hotel to wait for the rest of the people who had field labs (basically mandatory class trip).
Since this was our first port and one of the safest places to be, everyone was going crazy with excitement about going out to bars and clubs. Me, I'm not really that person but I tagged along for a little and made my way back to the hotel to get some sleep, well I thought. But the hotels in Japan only give you one key per room and so I took the key and then every 30 minutes until probably 5 am I had to let people in. So in Tokyo I didn't get much sleep at all.
I wanted to give you a sneak peak of my adventure in Japan and will be posting about my other four days ASAP
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