Day Before
Yesterday, I was nervous. Today, im excited :)
I took some photos of my space the other day, to print out to show people in Japan where I live.
Packing is pretty much done. Just some minor tweaking to get under the weight limit. The reason I'm so close to it is all the camping gear. Tent, sleeping bag, thermarest, trangia, etc. If I didnt have that, it would be a cruise, but i want to try and do quite a bit of camping in Chichibu-Tama national park.
Ive had email from Kakizakai-sensei that he has an apartment waiting for me - which is great - I was a little worried. He is also going to pick me up from the train station in Chichibu. Getting there is going to be interesting. I land in Narita at 1pm. The train out to Chichibu from Tokyo leaves from Ikebukuro station. There are two main ways to get to Ikebukuro - there is a direct train that comes in from the airport, but it only runs every so often, or a much more frequent train that comes into another station that is on the tokyo ring line (the Yamanote line) - which would mean swapping trains, and going round the Yamanote line to Ikebukuro...
fun fun fun :)
I took some photos of my space the other day, to print out to show people in Japan where I live.
Packing is pretty much done. Just some minor tweaking to get under the weight limit. The reason I'm so close to it is all the camping gear. Tent, sleeping bag, thermarest, trangia, etc. If I didnt have that, it would be a cruise, but i want to try and do quite a bit of camping in Chichibu-Tama national park.
Ive had email from Kakizakai-sensei that he has an apartment waiting for me - which is great - I was a little worried. He is also going to pick me up from the train station in Chichibu. Getting there is going to be interesting. I land in Narita at 1pm. The train out to Chichibu from Tokyo leaves from Ikebukuro station. There are two main ways to get to Ikebukuro - there is a direct train that comes in from the airport, but it only runs every so often, or a much more frequent train that comes into another station that is on the tokyo ring line (the Yamanote line) - which would mean swapping trains, and going round the Yamanote line to Ikebukuro...
fun fun fun :)
posted by ben at 2:07 pm
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OK, Ben has left for Japan this morning. And the first thing I found in the news today is a headline: "Typhoon hammers Japan". I hope that it does not interfere with your plans my friend. You may be walking from the airport.....;-)
The other thing I wanted to comment on, is that when I was frantically looking up Chichibu's relationship to Tokyo, is that I found a map of the place with Englishised names on it. Slightly more helpful than Kanji. Here is a link:
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/map/saitama/Chichibu+Nagatoro.html
Oh, I am still looking for it's relationship to Tokyo.
We are pleased that 'Shintaro' has arrived saftely in Chichibu - we await the many adventures of 'Blowin' in the Wind'
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