YOTSUYA
Oct 26, 2008 | 11:09 am
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YOTSUYA
Found a great deal at the Oakwood Yotsuya. Planning heavy sightseeing. Location seems quite central but can't seem to find any info on that neighbourhood. Anything happening in the evening ? Any nice restaurants ? Or should we be heading off to Shinjuku or Roppongi at dinner time ?
Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot
Oct 26, 2008 | 11:27 am
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Not a big party town but there are several streets of bars and restaurants.
http://www.bento.com/gmaps/yotsu.html
If you need all the bright lights and crowds, Shinjuku is very easy to get to from there.
http://www.bento.com/gmaps/yotsu.html
If you need all the bright lights and crowds, Shinjuku is very easy to get to from there.
Oct 26, 2008 | 12:01 pm
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When I studied in Japan for a semester my school was right at the Yotsuya stop. Not a huge amount of excitement in the immediate vicinity (plenty of places to grab lunch though) but you are very close train-wise to everything you could want.
Oct 26, 2008 | 12:30 pm
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you went to sophia?..when was this? i studied there for a semester as well.
Oct 26, 2008 | 2:24 pm
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Went back this summer for the first time since then. I was at Nakano station when they started playing the ドアが閉まります "tune" and something snapped in my head. I realized then the extent to which people there are "trained" to react automatically to these tunes.
Oct 26, 2008 | 6:23 pm
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Oct 26, 2008 | 6:45 pm
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Aww man, now I have to watch the movie so I can answer you...
Tokyo (and Japan more generally) is a great place to be but I'd never want to have to do the daily rat-race grind there. I still keep one of those "the train was late" notes in my wallet as a reminder of that mode of life.
Which is why I now live on a subtropical island in the middle of the ocean
Tokyo (and Japan more generally) is a great place to be but I'd never want to have to do the daily rat-race grind there. I still keep one of those "the train was late" notes in my wallet as a reminder of that mode of life.
Which is why I now live on a subtropical island in the middle of the ocean
Oct 26, 2008 | 10:05 pm
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Spring 2005, at the international campus closer to Ichigaya, through the CIEE program. Stayed with a host family in Nakano-ku, which made for less than a ten minute train ride in--usually took the rapid to Yotsuya and walked the rest of the way.
Went back this summer for the first time since then. I was at Nakano station when they started playing the ドアが閉まります "tune" and something snapped in my head. I realized then the extent to which people there are "trained" to react automatically to these tunes.
Went back this summer for the first time since then. I was at Nakano station when they started playing the ドアが閉まります "tune" and something snapped in my head. I realized then the extent to which people there are "trained" to react automatically to these tunes.
i miss the ドアが閉まります tune...not fun esp when you're crammed right by the door while it's actually closing and you're toes are about to be swallowed by the door!