Losing a day is a very surreal feeling, especially when one spends a whole day with night close at one's heels. Fourteen hours in the air, and it never once got dark. Again, I understand the science of it all, but greater person than me would find nothing but poetry.
In any case, I've had one experience so far and I've only been in Tokyo twelve hours. If only I had had a camera to document the occasion! A few of us CSU students, plus one other, decided to go out around the town and find dinner. While we were wandering around, completely dumbfounded by the rainbows of lights that saturate the city after dark, we were approached by a very loud, and very determined business woman who assured us free beer if we ate at her restaurant.
As she walks us in (after first ushering us into an elevator with a capacity for two), she yells, "motto gaijin! Motto motto gaijin!" which translates to "more foreigners! Much more foreigners!"
As it turns out, we were not the only ones she had seduced with the magic of free beer. Choosing the food was interesting, and she spirited Megan, the most fluent of all of us, away to the kitchen to assure us of what we were eating, since none of us understood the menu. All in all, it was very tasty, or as the business women kept assuring us "totemo oishi desu ne? TOTEMO OISHI" or "it's very good isn't it? VERY GOOD!" She had very little of the stereotypical japanese modesty.
I haven't got any chances to take any pictures, but I took this from my hotel window:
Shot of the street below through an uncooperative window.
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