Second day of Togane in Japan

Hmm, I am not quite sure where to start...Our plane arrived at Narita around 8 am yesterday. We got picked up by a kind girl named Yuko, who told us that we should take out some Japanese Yen from a ATM, since we had to get passport photos for some "gaijin card". After that, the bus drove to the university, where we had to sign some papers in order to get the keys for our apartments. We also recieved some information regarding the campus and so on from the person who is responsible for international exchange students, Kobayashi-san. 

When we were done with all the information stuffs, Kobayashi-san showed us around (post office, train station, super market etc)on in Togane-shi. Pass photos were done, then we went to the city hall, where we spent a couple of hours there waiting to recieve our temporary gaijin application stuffs (since we won't get the cards till in 3-4 weeks). When all those stuffs were finally done (phew!), we finally got to enter our apartments.

The apartment is suprising comfortable (compared to alot of student apartments in Norway!). There was already a bed which was ready to sleep on, there were also other useful electronic gadgets like air condition (of course), microwave oven, fridge, gas oven and even a small TV! Maybe I'll buy a Japanese Wii after all? We even got our own bath and toilette, unlike Norway where some of those have to be shared between alot of people. I'll upload some pictures later on.

Since I was pretty damn tired after the long trip with lack of sleep, and the long waiting in Togane city hall, I went to sleep at 8 PM after me and Tor Erling went to a local super market (or what Japanese people calls "convenient store) to buy some dinner/breakfast and drink. The food were basically some onigiris (which actually wasn't too bad).

I think I slept for approximately...11-12 hours? Well, that's for granted due to lack of sleep (as previously mentioned) combined with the jetlag. After getting my much needed food and drink, and checking the internet (stealing wireless from someone who lives nearby). I woke up Tor Erling, who (to my horror and sorrow) was still sleeping (the clock was about 11am or 12pm). Our initial plan was to take a trip to Tokyo along with Lars, but me and Tor Erling forgot some papers which was needed in order to get a cell phone subscription...so we bought some drink and went back to the apartment to get our papers. We tried to wake up Lars, but it seemed like he was still sleeping (plus he forgot to take out his key from the door).

We went to the local bank to take out some money, and went to the train station to check the time for the next train to Tokyo. There is usually two trains (both directions) that stop by per hour. By coincidence we met Lars at the station and also figured that a train to Tokyo just left the station. So we took a quick trip around the part of the city which is named "Togane Shopping City" (or something like that). Most stores were closed because the local population have some sort of tradition where Wednesday is considered "Water's Day" (or something along that line). To be honest...it was a little bit boring, but I did take some pictures!

Ok, too much damn texts, so I'll shorten the last part by alot.

Afterwards; Train to Tokyo where we had to change to another one at Chiba. Arrived at Tokyo Main Station, which was frigging huge. Took a trip around the station just to look around, before we decided to go to Shibuya. At Shibuya we went around a little bit more before we stopped by Starbucks to drink coffee. Then we went to some restaurant (which I don't recall the name of) and had dinner. Dinner done, back to Togane. Which was quite a mess since we were sort of lost we were looking for the correct train line in Tokyo Main Station. After passing by Ôami Station (which was two stations away from Togane), we realized the train didn't stop by Togane, so we had to get off a later station, get back to Ôami and then take the proper train line from there.

We went to a super market to get some more food and drink for breakfast and then went straight back to our apartments. It's actually 1:15 am now, so I better sleep again!

Oh yeah, my English is pretty bad and broken. But I am writting my entries in English since there "might" be people (who are not Norwegian) reading the entires. Most of them should be from Facebook as well!