Japan

This is the version where the copilot is necessary.






Beam me up, Scotty!

We all know that witches are made from wood. Don´t we? Answer:Yes


So what the hell is a sand witch?

I´ve completed the holy quest for "Momo".

And I´ve been to Kichijouji. Margie was right, I liked it. The town is like a comprehension of Japan. Shopping streets like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, small streets with old buildings like Kyoto, Temples like everywhere else in Japan, normal new buildings like Tokyo and parks.
But this place has something special. I´m aware of three things that are different to most of Japan.


1st: This place has an huge amount of Gaikokujin. Black people, white people, indians, europeans, americans... This fact itself is not sooo special, BUT they say hello to each other. It happened not the first time to me in Japan, that other foreigners were greeting each other, but soon after my first contacts with other foreigners I found out, that only those were paying attention to others, who might have realised that they will be different, no matter what. Best example Yokohama. There you can meet the normal amount of foreigners like in every big city. But it´s the best place to do some background study.

I´m open minded and I think I´m friendly enough to say hello to everyone who seems to be expecting something like this. I´m a normal foreigner, blond hair, no brown eyes - so everybody can recognize me as one very easy.

In Yokohama you can meet three different types of foreigners. Tourists, locals (people living there) and boy/girlfriends. Well, I assume that the tourists and the locals are aware of the situation that they are different. The boy/girlfriend type, however, seems to think that´s people automatically japanese when being together with an Japanese. Invisible for other foreigners.

Being in Yokohama several times, having traveled through the southwest of Japan, I can assure you, that none of the boy/girlfriend foreigners was saying hello. Minimum 80% of the others will say hello to you, when meeting outside of an typical tourist spot. Back to Kichijouji. There every foreigners said hello to me. With or without japanese friend, didn´t matter. It was crazy. The greeting factor was 100% (and I met 27 foreigners). Incredible.


2nd: This is the richest area I´ve seen so far. BMW´s, Audis, Mercedes, Porsches, Lamborghini, Ferraris you can find every brand there.
In the japanese branch of my company there´s a sign, which means roughly translated: "A scratch on the panel is a scratch on your heart!"
Today my heart was bleeding. I don´t like cars as much as I probably should (I´m a man), but today it made me cry to see an "expensive-gorgeous-beautiful-well designed-perfectly handcrafted-strong-dream of every young boy-marry me girl" car in a state where I think nobody would say: "I don´t care"
Even if I would have enough money to effort 30 of these cars, I would never ever ever ever do this to it. See yourself:





3rd: This must be the capitol of the hairdresser union. 13 shops within 200m. It was impressing that every one of these shops was filled with people.



And they had an outlet store for Jack Wolfskin:

...yet. But who knows which of the martial arts he is practicing. I´m sure my Aikido wouldn´t help me, it´s too long ago.


He is the angriest looking Japanese man I have seen in my whole life. Even in Japanese movies the guys looking not so angry. I mean I can understand his mood. I would have been angry too, but I would not sit in the lobby for 3 hours to wait until someone picks up his clothes from the washing machine. I would have taken the things and would have put them into the dryer. But this guy sits there, doing nothing then just looking angry. Back in the old days I would have been dead by now. Silent Ninja killers. I have to be careful tonight. If there´s no new entry until tomorrow 12°° could please someone inform my family?

&"%§/$"!! small japanese hotel rooms. I´m getting lazy, because I can reach almost every part of my room, without leaving the chair.

Now I toppled down with my chair, because I wanted to get the toast from the grill, without changing my position in relation to the grill.

It hurts.

Kichijouji and Inokashira Park were recommended this night from Margie.

Well, although I only have seen her for 4 1/2 days in my life I can be sure that she knows what I like. So I will give it a try. Now I only have to find out, where these places are...

Task before breakfast: Find these places!