Tokyo Pt. 2

Japan was really quite some experience. I've posted some photos at Flickr. As you can see, I am really fascinated with the sheer huge-ness of the city and its architecture as well as its roots in tradition. You wouldn't see so much traditional clothing in Berlin for example.

Speaking of architecture, I must say that this is a reason for me to return to Japan some time. From Starck's golden poop to traditional temples everywhere, from the narrow-ness of living in capsule hotels to the wide-ness and seeming waste of public space on Odaiba, everything is in this metropolis, of which some people say that it spreads like cancer in the bay area. I haven't been to a capsule hotel since I am 1,95 m and easily claustrophobic for that matter, but my hotel room in the Tokyo Ariake Washington Hotel was definitely only 80% of the size of European hotelrooms. Although I must say that I've stayed in a smaller hotel room in Cologne for more money.

Anyway, you can not really tell how it is with all the jet lag and the lost in translation feeling and the vastness of public space and the tiny private space. You have to be there. It is such a pulsating city and we had only one and a half day to have a closer look, because we had to work there of course. This is just not enough. I will return there some time, but not in July at the end of the raining season...