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Thursday, 27 April 2006

Tokyo Life

This place is pretty amazing. Everything is clean and it works - quite a far cry from London or Spain.
Full reports will follow - a bit too flustered right now - but have to say there are some great restaurants here. Big hello to the guys over at Antwerp Central, Junya and Atsushi. They showed us extreme hospitality, which we ended up paying for the next morning. Cold sake rules!
We've hit all the neighbourhoods this week - Ginza and Roppongi getting special attention. This is a different world. I think Japan is still the master at isolation and adaptation. It has trappings of Europe and the west but there is no forgetting that you are in Tokyo. For example, at Antwerp Central, it was packed with a 150 or so people. We were (literally!) the only non-japanese. I can't think of any central city restaurants that you would be the only non-native in. Certainly not in London, Toronto or especially Spain (where often you would be hard pressed to find one native amongst the foreign diners).

I need to collect my thoughts and write some concise things, but I can't think right now. I've never gotten comfortable with Internet cafe's.

Sunday we fly home, but, I am a little concerned as for some reason our status on the BA website seems a bit wierd.

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