never end

for participating the exhibition of Tokyo Design Festa (the location has a nickname ‘Big Sight’ which is well-known by Japanese) I decided to go to Tokyo by myself.

Before getting in this country, a female immigrant officer asked me to open my large luggage and checked my stuff seriously. She wondered why I bought so many book covers this time.

‘Well… I’m an exhibitor of the event of “Big Sight” ‘ I answered.

‘Big Sight????’ she didn’t get it.

After her reflection, she suddenly got the point. ‘oh~! Bi-gu Sai-do!!!!’

In the same moment, I felt something…..

Another thing was, I missed my last Limousine bus to ‘O-Dai-Ba’…..so I had to take another bus to Tokyo station and transfer by train or taxi to my location

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It was almost 10pm when I arrived to Tokyo station, the temperature was getting down, I wore just like summer dresses, was walking with my large and medium luggage, it was not a easy job…… and I was starving. I tried to go in the mall beside me tried to find some food, but I couldn’t find any elevator and I thought it was almost closed, so I gave up and kept walking toward to the train station.

The station was under construction, I couldn’t fine any elevator, police officer around there couldn’t really speak english, so I got in a cab.

the driver was a senior person with friendly look, he couldn’t speak english either, but he knew how to discuss with number in english, that was great!

I jumped into the cab, the driver tried to slow down his japanese and talk to me, but I couldn’t really understand him just as I tried to slow down my english.

so we kept silent, until he drove me to my hotel @ ‘O-Dai-Ba’, he finally spoke to me in poor english and excellent japanese. ‘You must ask your parents if you had half-japanese…… cause your skin and your look is just like japanese.’

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Adam, my brother’s friend who’s working in Tokyo, brought my package which I sent it in advance before departure, he separated it into a large luggage and a small cart, came to my hotel from far far away ‘Singnagawa’ by taxi.

He really helped me a lot!!!!

after all schedule was done, I finally had my dinner, a microwave reheat food from 24h grocery store downstair my hotel room

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inside my tiny hotel room, after all luggage was opened, I could barely walk through the doorway easily, definitely no enough space…… my laptop couldn’t connect internet so all I can do was switch on the tv-set and kept working by myself. strange language filled in my room, I could hardly understand a simple word.

I stood aside the window, looked at the outside scene, Had no idea where was there then, but I was excited to admit something…… the crazy thing was I brought myself alone to Tokyo.

Sure, I have to get out of the boring area tomorrow, to the new place with a lot of new hope

Filed under: japan by sophie library