Can You belive that this is 5:00am in the morning?
Everybody know what is Japan or Nippon the home of the raising sun, indeed it is the home of the raising sun – The Sun that very eager to show up by himself long before it should be.
My God! ……………. Doesn’t U have any graciousness to let visitors like me have a longer sleep?
How could it already appear high on the sky on 5.30 in the morning? I just have less than 4 hour sleep last night. ………….
Well, that’s the fact – night is very short in this country. Anyway, in my opinion, Tokyo is quite similar with Singapore especially the MRT system, except they have up to 24 lines – multi operator, except the weather, and the more important thing is ………..
I Hardly Couldn’t find Trash Bin along the road ………………….
The only Trash Bins you can find is besides the soft-drink vending machines, where you can buy your free-selected soft-drink in machine, drink it at once, and put the empty bottle or can to the trash bin right besides it, otherwise you may carry your bottle every where you go.
Variouse Scene in Tokyo City
It is a City without Trash Bins, no wonder the city is much-much cleaner, since everybody not able to leave trashes unless they carry their trashes back home!!!
I was there almost the whole week partly for official duties, and the rest is more to what we called “getting to know more about Tokyo”, and I want to share a bit about the “non official” parts.
Far beyond my imagination, Tokyo is much-much “green” compared to Jakarta, you can find lot of Public Park & Trees along the road, even up to the main business district like nipponbashi or major shopping Area such as Shinjuku or Ginza Street. You may find “Ginkgo” and cherry trees along the road, nicely organize to provide shades for the pedestrian trail in the both sides of the road. It is very nice City after all.
Morning eve at several places
The major difference is, there is not too many parking area even though lot of apartments scatter all over the City. Here, parking lot is one of main issue to have private owned car. Unlike Singapore, Car is relatively cheap, you may have the latest Porsche convertible just for 4.8 million Yen, but then you may have serious headache to find your car since it is very-very expensive to pay a parking lot for it. The cost is about 100-300 Yen per 30 minutes! Or 60K-100K Yen/month, Can you imagine that?
Similar to other Major cities, Space is always problem, may be when they re-build this city after WW2, they may build lot of residential apartment but not for Car Park, since it was designed when Car has not become major requirement for common people.
Living space is also very expensive, I heard from locals that you have to pay about 75K-100K Yen / month just to rent 9m sq living space, which is only single tiny studio room, with 1m sq Shower room and tiny kitchen. It is a tough live isn’t it?
Tokyo Shinoji Temple & Tokyo Tower
I Do not have much pleasure time to explore the city, I just have short visit to Shinjuku, Harajuku, Meguro neighborhood (since we were stay at Sheraton Miyako Hotel nearby) and off course Akhiabhara Electronic City, and also 2 (Two) visitors object, Tokyo Tower and Shinoji Temple).
To be continue .........................
