Landed...

And broke my backpack.

Nothing major, just a tab thingy on the strap. And it is my day pack, so no real harm. I just felt like an idiot taking off the duffel and exploding this piece of plastic while buying a train ticket. Great first impression, right?

So far things are good. I met up with Jimm with no difficulties and we have been walking around Tokyo since. Got some food, got some sightseeing and I have learned that this is the most complicated train system ever. Really, there are like 6 different train companies and they all take different tickets and they do not show the competitions train lines on their maps and all trains are in the same station.

If I did not have Jimm showing me around I would probably have ended up back at Narita Airport twice attempting to figure this out. Or given up and grabbed a cab. Then shown just how useless my four words in Japanese are. I can not think of any reason why knowing the Japanese words for room, knife, to be and I along with the ability to count from 1 to 10,000 or so, would allow me to properly convey a location. And Jimm just told me the addresses here are useless anyway. Why do they have them? I am not sure.

And I am not currently able to use apostrophes. I see it on the keyboard. But I do not know how to get the fourth character on a key to show up on the screen. Luckily I did figure out how to stop writing in katana. If I had not this would be a very silly blog entry.

Tommorow is the first World Baseball Classic game! Jimm and I are going to see Korea play Taiwan at the Tokyo dome. He described it as 'Yankee Stadium + the Astrodome + your mob' or something. It sounds quite impressive. All I know is I am excited and I figured out how to make this mark: '. Hah! Contractions are mine again!

So, uh, I guess I haven't gotten enough sleep lately. But it is okay. I am in Tokyo. Hello adventure, good bye knowing what people are saying.

I think its Shinjuku.