The best night of sleep in the last 5 weeks for sure! Real beds, feather pillows, down comforters!
Today was a busy day exploring as much as we could. We hit the Sony headquarters, which had 6 floors of demos of all their up and coming products. Very impressive. The Edo-Tokyo Museum was nice as well, as they provided an English interpreter free of charge to give us a personal tour. For some reason, we didn't have the 2 armed guards with us like the Princess of Jordan who was ahead of us the whole time. I can't figure out why.
Heading to Tokyo Station around rush hour, we saw a collection of large people in the main lobby. Around a 30 foot Christmas Tree (from WA State we were told), a symphony, conductor, and 3 opera singers were just starting a Christmas performance. It was a charity show for refugees around the world, and their voices were quite suprising. As most of you could probably guess, opera isn't exactly my idea of a fun night out. But this one Japanese girl in particular couldn't have been more than 20 years old and had a voice that was out of this world. They did mostly Christmas tunes in Japanese, then to opera in Italian. It was by far the moment I will take from Japan and probably never forget.
After this, we headed to the district of Shibuya, which literally has the busiest crosswalk in the world. It is hilarious. All of the traffic lights turn red at once, and then I'm willing to bet over a thousand people flood the street in all directions. We crossed several times, just going randomly to experience the mayhem. No particular direction. Once I just stood in the middle and watched everyone running around, wondering what makes time so precious here to engage people into running in all directions. Certainly interesting.
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