Garden.

My hotel garden is three plants, one is garlic.

I have been here almost two weeks now and I have gone to many places that I will list below:

• Hbiya Park
• This is quite a large park where people walk or eat lunch.  There are many events held here and is seems like every time I go through that area I see tents set up with vendors.
• There was one vendor in particular that caught my eye because they sell childrens puzzles and some toys.  I want to get the little fish toy that you put inside a water bottle and add a fake plant and BOOM baby!  You now have your own desktop aquarium. 
• Hibiya Restaurants
• I went with my old friends Kei, Kazuto, Toshiaki and Taiki to this really amazing but expensive restaurant for a welcome to Japan party.  It was really great food, I just wish I could read Japanese and I would tell you the name of the restaurant.
• Kazuto and I have also been to a couple other restaurants, the latest being a yakiniku style restaurant.  The food was really amazing!
• Hibiya Stores
• This area of Tokyo is really high class it seems, with designer stores lining the streets and rancy restaurants.
• I have not dared to enter one of the stores yet because I am afraid if I sneeze or cough they will charge me 6,000 yen for the offense. Too high fashion for my blood.
• Akihabara
• This is a tourist type area with a lot of flashy lights and people handing out fliers and trying to get you to enter their stores.
• There are many comic and game shops in this area and I see many younger people here.
• This area also attracts the punk rockers and other various styles.
• I bought some MTG cards here because they are 1 - 3 dollars cheaper than America.
• There is a store called Don Quixote that has 8 floors each with various and quite randomly placed items.  It is a must see if you are here for an extended visit and need supplies.
• The densha and chikatetsu
• I rode the train a few times if I must, but I do not like to be touched and smashed into a train car so I walk almost everywhere as long as it is within an hour's walking distance.
• Tokyo station
• This place requires a map, and even with a map I got lost and gave up and went outside and called a taxi.
• I did take the shinkansen to Niigata and then an express densha to Tsuruoka to see the mountains and the coast.
• Niigata Japan
• I did not spend a lot of time here.  I bought some udon miso and walked around outside of Niigata station.
• The city is a dingy kind of color, like a layer of dirt is coating every building.
• Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
• This is a small city with a lot of farming.  The country feel is awesome and the coast was great!
• I went to an Onsen just off the coast at a hotel.  It was very nice and relaxing.

That is it for now.  Upcoming events I am planning are:

• Disney Land
• Ueno Park
• Ueno Museums
• Ueno zoo
• Kyoto Temples and Shrines
• Kyoto Onsen
• Osaka Temples and Shrines
• Osaka Onsen

Vacation Niigata and coast to Tsuruoka.

I decided with some assistance from Toshiaki to take the Max Shinkansen Thursday night. I was not feeling well at the time but I did it anyway because I did not want to miss the experience.