These are stultifyingly dull, but here are some images: the flight over and views from the top floor of my building at 5AM this mo’nin…
This was my view for 13hrs. on the way over - Alaska under clouds…bummer. 
Boy’s first sighting of Nippon ::yawn::
Here’s most of the view off the side of my building that I live on, there are at least four or five more buildings in the compound - note the green leafy stuff at the bottom of the photo - trees, abundant and tall by tokyo standards, with a (fake, i think) stream and pond set in them….yay!
Here’s the view off the other side of my building, Tokyo skyline! But you have to go to the top floor to see it.
Another view from this side…has anyone ever mentioned to you that tokyo is crowded? Well it turns out to be true - the train station I am headed to in about 45 minutes gets daily traffic equivalent to the entire population of the city of Chicago…this is one train station…and I have to find the South Exit but not the New South Exit or the Southeast Exit…I think I might not be giving myself enough time…I walked through this station last night and it is boggling, take Grand Central multiply it by five and tangle up the atriums (sp? — atria?), platforms and walkways into an untie-able knot, and you pretty much have Shinjuku Station….wish me luck.
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Jun 14th, 2004 at 1:08 pm
An “untie-able knot” is called a Gordian knot.