
Thank God I found this thing
Just got into my new apartment in Yotsuya about an hour ago. Phew. The plane ride was as good as a 13 hour flight can be, but nothing prepares you for being dumped onto a street with a poorly drawn map in a foreign country. I probably wandered around Shinjuku for an hour before I snapped any pictures, and only then did I take a picture because I stumbled upon an area map, haha.
To recap my evening I finally found the leasing office and got the key to my apartment, then wandered around looking for an ATM so I could pay for a cab. Found an ATM, failed to properly insert my card like 7 times, raged, and left in search of cabs who took Visa. Unfortunately for my cab driver my apartment is in a maze of pedestrian streets, so he could only pull up so far into a one way road, completely block traffic, and point me down an alley where I wandered aimlessly for another 15 minutes before finding the clearly marked building I was looking for. My plane landed at 2:30pm Japan time, and I finally got into my apartment around 8:15, ouch. For my first evening meal I found something microwaveable at a convenience store and it sits next to me as I type this; brown noodles that came with some sort of tapioca sauce that I regret having poured on them.
Anyways, snapped a few photos of the street I’m on. Not entirely happy with the picture quality, but I haven’t taken the time to mess around with it so hopefully it’ll improve. I also need to mess around with the size of the pics, WordPress seems to like shrinking the hell out of everything.


Incredibly nondescript pictures I know, sorry. Pretty happy to be here, be in my apartment, and have the internet working. Tomorrow I venture out in search of a grocery store, and a place to eat that isn’t owned by 7-11 Holdings. Wish me luck, I will definitely need it.