{"id":767,"date":"2024-05-10T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koren.korenscreativearts.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:48:15","slug":"leg-2-and-electric-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.koren.korenscreativearts.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Leg #2 and Electric Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A store full of Prince Merchandising at the Minneapolis Airport – I was sprinting by, trying not to miss my connecting flight after the delay..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am struggling to type as I have now been up for close to 30 hours but I am trying to beat this jet lag. I do not want to get up at 4 in the morning, so I am hanging on as long as I can . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second leg of my flight from Minneapolis to Haneda airport in Tokyo was uneventful. I watched some tv and movies, did a lot of work on a wedding ceremony that is coming up in June, chatted with my seat neighbours. The food on Delta was surprisingly good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going through customs was hilarious. I wish I had been able to take photos or video, but there were signs everywhere saying not to use your phone. I didn\u2019t want to be THAT woman. There were several planes that were coming at the same time, each with probably at least 600 passengers. It was a zoo. First we were all bottlenecked outside the gates, and then we went through what felt like a rat maze in a lab.\u00a0 I had no wifi so I couldn\u2019t count steps, but I feel like we got 10,000 just going back and forth, back and forth in line like they do at Disney. Luckily I was in no rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was quite comical, we kept passing the same people and we were all laughing at how absurd the experience was.   I only took a carry on, so besides being a little confusing, I managed to get through customs. The agent was pretty shocked that I didn\u2019t have a checked bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent a decent amount of time gathering myself in the lobby of the airport, installing my sim card, and planing out my transit route to get to my Airbnb. I did make one train mistake, but it was pretty minor – took the local instead of the express – still got there, albeit a little slower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am staying in an apartment with two bedrooms, a bathroom, hot plate with two burners, sink and a tiny washing machine.   All for $80CDN per night – not too shabby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My focus tonight was to stay awake till at least 9pm, so I walked around my neighbourhood for a few hours including reading in a park. First I checked out where the language school is and I was delighted to discover is it, literally a 2 min walk away – at the end of my street.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had onigiri from a 7-eleven to tide me over till dinner, and then wandered the streets in this particular shopping district ( Okachimachi station area, right next to Akihabara, also know as electric town)., and found a great sushi place. I sat at the sushi bar, and had fantastic sushi. Turns out a little farther down the bar were a young couple from Ottawa.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, I am literally falling asleep while typing, but here are a few good photos – worth a least a thousand words each.    Sorry for the photo dump, but I am too tired to do much with them now.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the sushi place:                                   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the middle of this busy commercial area, there are also small houses with intricate container gardening going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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cool sculpture in the local park which reminded me of Henry Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Same park in the middle of the concrete jungle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shopping Area Shots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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