I just visited Japan last week, a amazing and interesting place. First we were in Tokyo, after arrived the people assumed that I am Japanese and tried many times to speak japanese to me, but unfortunately my japanese is really poor. I just can smile and bow back.
We lived in Shinjuku, a busy area not far from Tokyo, it is one of the center of Tokyo city, since the metro and railway s are so advanced, you could reach to one place so easily. But the metro and railway map is really a confusing one, many different lines with different colors, difficult for me to figure out where to go. Another thing is to use the ticket machine, good it has English so we could just use it, since ask the conductor there is useless (we tried once, but he seemed not really understand English very much).
Busy and crowed big city, lights from the tall buildings shining all night.It looked like New York, just on the street walking most of them are Asian. First night we went to Shibuya and found a nice small restaurant, with pointing out the food on the menu, we had a pretty good dinner.
Second day we went to the Yasukuni-jinja (Jin guo shen she) where the japanese people warship lots of soldiers and some are war criminals. It looked so normal as other shrines in Japan, but absolutely the feeling is different. Chinese and Korean people against the prime minister of Japan to come to this shrine for many times. In the museum we read about the war history of Japan, most of it showing that Japan is fight for good and justice, they did not mention much about Nanjing where they killed more than 300 thousands Chinese people. This shrine just like a government tool to fix their peoples' mind and to plant the seed that Japan is fighting for goodness and peace...
In the evening we met the lovely translating machine - an American who can speak fluently Japanese and lives in Japan for many years. He is funny, though he is speaking Japanese but his face move and body languages is so vivid, not like a Japanese.;)
We had fun together and enjoyed good food again. The next day will be traveling to Sendai to meet my cousin and her family.
(To be continued)
We lived in Shinjuku, a busy area not far from Tokyo, it is one of the center of Tokyo city, since the metro and railway s are so advanced, you could reach to one place so easily. But the metro and railway map is really a confusing one, many different lines with different colors, difficult for me to figure out where to go. Another thing is to use the ticket machine, good it has English so we could just use it, since ask the conductor there is useless (we tried once, but he seemed not really understand English very much).
Busy and crowed big city, lights from the tall buildings shining all night.It looked like New York, just on the street walking most of them are Asian. First night we went to Shibuya and found a nice small restaurant, with pointing out the food on the menu, we had a pretty good dinner.
Second day we went to the Yasukuni-jinja (Jin guo shen she) where the japanese people warship lots of soldiers and some are war criminals. It looked so normal as other shrines in Japan, but absolutely the feeling is different. Chinese and Korean people against the prime minister of Japan to come to this shrine for many times. In the museum we read about the war history of Japan, most of it showing that Japan is fight for good and justice, they did not mention much about Nanjing where they killed more than 300 thousands Chinese people. This shrine just like a government tool to fix their peoples' mind and to plant the seed that Japan is fighting for goodness and peace...
In the evening we met the lovely translating machine - an American who can speak fluently Japanese and lives in Japan for many years. He is funny, though he is speaking Japanese but his face move and body languages is so vivid, not like a Japanese.;)
We had fun together and enjoyed good food again. The next day will be traveling to Sendai to meet my cousin and her family.
(To be continued)
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