MikeH
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yet you only have to go to Tokyo for a few things.
You call them a few things, I call them p4p, beer and rock'n'roll.
yet you only have to go to Tokyo for a few things.
My company had an office in Yokohama until it just relocated to Ousaki. Nice for shopping. Had my favorite pawn/antique shop there until the end of October when it closed down for good.I must admit Minato Mirai was dreadful at the beginning but now it's kinda cool
The morning commute on the trains in Greater Tokyo has to be seen to be believed. The evening commute is also crowded, but it tends to be more spread out time-wise. Hence, it's not quite so bad. Nevertheless, the last train full of drunk salarymen can be amusing.
Or going into a train thinking this is packed to the max, only to get smashed in by 10 more people like sardines in a can.Nothing like being swept out of a train by a crowd of commuters. It's like being carried out to sea by a strong ocean current.
Stay in the 23 wards inside Yamanote line
honestly, apart from the fact that to incredibly superficial people these areas are somehow aspirational, what exactly is 'nice' about them? They are all inner-city areas surrounded by major roads and expressways. They all have nice apartments but also surrounded by shitty old housing blocks and bad infrastructure. Just because some Japanese ladies you meet at the Hub will immediately drop their panties when you tell them you live there (believe me, I know, I used to), actually living in those areas isn't that special.Azabu Juban , Midtown , Hiroo, Minami Azabu
what exactly is 'nice' about them?
talk with only other foreigners in English and shop in supermarkets specialising in foreign products?
One of the most infuriating things Ive ever seen; I was at the International supermarket in Hiroo and there was a ex-pat wife type shopping there nearby where I was. She had a personal shopper (he had on the uniform), a Japanese /US bilingual guy, who was walking around with her and explaining the products and what she should buy. I could understand that if they were at the local supermarket but they were in an international store where everything is in English and mostly imported goods.
I just know when she went back to the US she was telling all her fellow housewives about her adventure in Tokyo and how she even shopped at the local stores.
maybe she was French? We’re not very familiar with the American crap they sell at National Azabu
Or is just simply not familiar with oz, lb, and other exotic mentions . Also some products we don’t understand at all even if fluent in english. Spotted dick anyone?Only would work if she was illiterate but could understand spoken English.
Spotted dick anyone?
I used to live in western Tokyo, in one of 23-wards but outside the Yamanote loop in a leafy neighborhood where the houses were smaller yet decent by Western standard. The house I lived has gone at the end of the bubble era, replaced by 3 narrow/small houses. A larger house next door was replaced by 8 small houses. Whenever I go to that neighborhood, I feel nostalgic but also feel suffocated. For me, western part of Tokyo is not attractive since it has been destroyed by those developers of all those ugly small houses . This is another reason why eastern part, like Taito ward, looks refreshing as the area preserves old Tokyo better. I could catch a glimpse of old Tokyo in some part of Minato ward, too, which is very attractive to me.
French only know about eating raw Onions.........so it smells..maybe she was French? We’re not very familiar with the American crap they sell at National Azabu