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Okay, don't get me started on the massive amount of tourists visiting Tokyo this Spring vacation and over crowding the trains so I can't sit down on my long commute to work. I understand, Tokyo is a wonderful place, it's the right time of year, so of course there are foreigners dragging huge suit cases through the crowded stations blocking the ticket gates and creating long queues at the staff window and ticket office.
Just saw a group of 30 old white people huddling together in a ball in front of Shinjuku Busta (what a stupid name, sounds like the Japanese baseball term for faking a bunt then swinging). It's not even that cold and they all looked very intimidated by the commuter rush that the couldn't stand more than 6 inches away from each other. At least they liked the scenery and started taking vids and pictures of everything.
Anyway......does anyone know why there is a group of white tourists gathering every night at 19:00 in front of the tourist center at the South-East exit of Shinjuku located in the tunnel that leads to Takashimaya? (Near the pachislot parlor Green Peas) Every night I pass them and they are always centered on a Japanese tour guide who is screaming at them in broken English about what to be careful of when wandering around Shinjuku and what restaurants to visit and which ones to avoid. The crowd is so big that it blocks the flow of people in the tunnel, so I hope they aren't gonna be there every night from now on.
I think one of the restaurants they tell the tourists to go to is the Gyu-Katsu (beef cutlet) shop that's nearby. It has crazy long lines full of foreigners every night while a shop in the same chain that's 10 minutes away is always empty.
Just saw a group of 30 old white people huddling together in a ball in front of Shinjuku Busta (what a stupid name, sounds like the Japanese baseball term for faking a bunt then swinging). It's not even that cold and they all looked very intimidated by the commuter rush that the couldn't stand more than 6 inches away from each other. At least they liked the scenery and started taking vids and pictures of everything.
Anyway......does anyone know why there is a group of white tourists gathering every night at 19:00 in front of the tourist center at the South-East exit of Shinjuku located in the tunnel that leads to Takashimaya? (Near the pachislot parlor Green Peas) Every night I pass them and they are always centered on a Japanese tour guide who is screaming at them in broken English about what to be careful of when wandering around Shinjuku and what restaurants to visit and which ones to avoid. The crowd is so big that it blocks the flow of people in the tunnel, so I hope they aren't gonna be there every night from now on.
I think one of the restaurants they tell the tourists to go to is the Gyu-Katsu (beef cutlet) shop that's nearby. It has crazy long lines full of foreigners every night while a shop in the same chain that's 10 minutes away is always empty.