Seriously, this place is awesome.Also, I've found out why the flushing sound exists on the toilets.
Today I went for a look around Akihabara aka electric street. Here there is floor after floor, building after building of electronic stores. I honestly have no idea how they all stay in business. There is also a huge number of game shops and anime/manga shops. If I could read kanji I could have spent so much money there.
Here is an arcade with different floors for different genres of games. A floor essentially devoted to Time Crisis is my kind of arcade.
On my way bag I passed a supermarket and thought I'd show you how prolific cycling is here. They go faster than I'd feel safe doing on pavements full of pedestrians too.
As a result of getting irritated by not being able to read anything I've started learning kanji. 20 down, only 1980 common use kanji left to go. It isn't made any easier by the number of readings some of them have. The kanji meaning "base", "lower" or "under" can be read as, "ka", "ge", "shita", "shimo", "moto", "kudasaru", "kudaru", "sagaru", and "oriru". Knowing which you are meant to use is only known from experience. In general Japanese is a very sensible language but how is this in any way a sane writing system!?! Stupid Chinese...
In the evening I found that the hostel had suddenly filled up and I spent the evening talking to various. Most of them were Australian. It has started already...
I went for another walk around the temple near the hostel with one of them. This time I remembered my gorilla pod so my night shots are better. As it turns out, night mode + faint green light = pretty cool pictures.
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