{"id":267,"date":"2010-04-29T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:32:46","slug":"day-1-jour-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 \/ Jour 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lire en fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n

So here comes the first day, after an uneventful flight yesterday, and a night of rest, well not exactly a night as I was not so tired when I arrived at the hotel which was about 9pm. So today, I’ve started after checking my maps and all to walk in the area of the hotel which is in Shinagawa. And is with a lot of surprises that like in other area of Tokyo, if you just get a little outside of the main street and all, you easily get into very small roads, and in nature where you do not seem so much to be in such a major city. After that I went back to the station for one of the hardest thing for a non Japanese I think which is to find a restaurant for lunch, as there are two things which are first to find them as sometimes they are underground, or on top floors and names are only in Japanese, and then to find one where you have English menu, or at least someone who can help you. So I find one by the station and had a little curry of fish which was pretty nice.<\/p>\n

I then took the train for Akihabara, and there I’ve discovered how much better it is organized than in Paris, of course there are much more people, and well it appeared someone was sleeping very hard or having some troubles I don’t really now, but well people got worried, told the driver and then she had made an announcement which I guess was to say we would not leave before a few minutes, and just after less than five minutes three or four agents of the train station came and awoke her up and helped her before we could then continue. One thing we’ll not be seeing anywhere else where you just have no more agents. That was also on the trip to get to the hotel, that I could get my first taste of the Japanese kindness, I was standing on the small trip on the Yamanote yesterday evening, because I wanted not to bother people with my suitcase. And then a middle aged man told me I could sit and engage conversation which was really nice asking where I was going and telling me how much station there were still to go, and so we discussed a bit in English of course, but that was really nice.<\/p>\n

So back to the Electric town, which was really crowded with hundreds of small and big shops, many using several levels, and where you get to find a lot of things, with a good part being electronics (TV, Hi-Fi, Games, \u2026) and Manga\/Anime. You also get to see a lot of dressed girls giving some ads for some maid coffee, which are coffees where those maid take care of you, naming you like goshujin sama (which is just master in Japanese), as well as advertisement for shops. It is really a lot of things to see and hear, and still a nice time that I could take more time there, though I didn’t try to find one of those maid coffee, I would’ve had a hard time talking there I think.<\/p>\n

Then as I still had time before my program of the evening I decided I would go to visit Ueno which is an Area we didn’t went at all last year and which is also quite nice as there is very big park that is once again another part of Tokyo, where you’re just not so much more in that big cities you see buildings in the horizon but they do not seem so close anymore. At this place there is also a few lakes one being natural, and another being used for boat location where you can find and go doing pedalo, or just real boat, there were a lot of people taking good time, and a lot of couples that where there having picnic, or just relaxing. I also saw a small temple with a lot of food stands in front of it, some cherry trees, and got a glimpse of some scholars playing the most known sports here which is baseball.<\/p>\n

After that it was time to get to Hamamatsucho for a first organized night tour of Tokyo. We started by dining at Odaiba on the 21st floor of an hotel, where I had beef-sukiyaki, then we went on the shore side of Odaiba to see the Statue of Liberty, before going back through the Rainbow Bridge to get a view of Tokyo from the high level as we went on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower, that was a nice time to get a night view of Tokyo. That’s it for now, see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Nous voila donc au premier jour du voyage, apr\u00e8s un vol sans histoire hier et une bonne nuit de sommeil, qui ne fut pas vraiment compl\u00e8te car pas encore dans le rythme \u00e9tant arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel \u00e0 21h. Alors aujourd’hui j’ai commanc\u00e9 par m’organiser avec mes cartes et co, pour commencer par me promener dans les environs de mon h\u00f4tel qui se situe dans le quartier de Shinagawa. Et c’est peu la grande surprise comme dans d’autres quartiers de Tokyo, si vous vous \u00e9loignez un tant sois peu des routes principales, on se retrouve facilement dans de toute petite rue, et avec de la nature o\u00f9 l’on ne semble plus tant que \u00e7a \u00eatre dans une ville de cette importance. Apr\u00e8s quoi retour \u00e0 la station de Shinagawa pour l’une des choses les moins \u00e9videntes de mon voyage seul ne lisant pas le japonais, trouver \u00e0 manger car les restaurants sont parfois aux sous-sols, ou au contraire dans les \u00e9tages avec des noms globalement plut\u00f4t uniquement en Japonais, et ensuite encore faut-il en trouver un avec un menu en anglais ou au moins un serveur parlant anglais. J’en ai donc trouv\u00e9 un o\u00f9 j’ai pris un petit curry de poisson qui \u00e9tait bien sympathique.<\/p>\n

J’ai ensuite pris le train pour Akihabara, et l\u00e0 je n’ai pu que constat\u00e9 combien les transports sont mieux organis\u00e9s que sur Paris, avec pour tant un nombre de voyageur autrement plus important, et voila quelqu’un dormait vraiment profond\u00e9ment ou avait quelque probl\u00e8me, mais bon plusieurs personnes se sont rapidement inqui\u00e9t\u00e9es, ont pr\u00e9venue le conducteur, qui a ensuite fait une annonce et appel\u00e9 des agents de la station, en cinq minutes 3 \/4 personnes sont arriv\u00e9s et ont r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l a r\u00e9veiller et \u00e0 l’aider \u00e0 descendre avant que le train ne reparte. Une chose qu’on ne voit pas chez nous pour s\u00fbr, avec le peu d’agents qu’il reste. C’est aussi en me rendant \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel que j’ai pu des mon arriv\u00e9 retrouver l’attention Japonaise, je me tenais debout le trajet n’\u00e9tant gu\u00e8re long et ne voulant pas g\u00eaner avec ma grosse valise. Et un homme m’a dit que je pouvais m’assoir, et \u00e0 engager la conversation, ce qui \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s sympa demandant o\u00f9 je me rendais, d’o\u00f9 je venais les banalit\u00e9s mais une petite conversation bien sympathique en anglais bien s\u00fbr.<\/p>\n

De retour au village \u00c9lectrique, qui \u00e9tait vraiment rempli de monde aujourd’hui (jour de vacance national en m\u00e9moire de la naissance du pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent empereur) et o\u00f9 il y a des centaines de boutiques de toutes tailles certaines utilisant plusieurs niveaux, et o\u00f9 l’on trouve de tout avec une bonne partie d’\u00e9lectronique (TV, Hi-Fi, Jeux, \u2026) sans oubli\u00e9 manga et anime. Il y a aussi un bon nombre de jeunes femmes vous donnant de la pub pour divers Maid Coffee, qui sont des caf\u00e9s o\u00f9 vous \u00eates servis par les maids g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en tenue de soubrette et qui prenne soin de vous, vous appelant par exemple goshujin sama (qui signifie ma\u00eetre en japonais), aussi bien que des pubs pour les diverses boutiques, et donc un bon moment puisque j’ai pu y passer un bon moment, bien que je n’ai pas tent\u00e9 de trouver l’un de ces Maid Coffee o\u00f9 j’aurai bien eu du mal \u00e0 parler.<\/p>\n

Puis me restant du temps avec mon programme de la soir\u00e9e, j’ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d’aller visit\u00e9 Ueno \u00e0 deux stations de l\u00e0, et que je n’avais pas visit\u00e9 l’an dernier, et qui est fort sympathique puisqu’il n’y a pas moins qu’un immense parc, qui est une autre zone de Tokyo o\u00f9 l’on ne se sent plus tellement dans cette grande ville, m\u00eame si l’on voit bien des tours \u00e0 l’horizon elle ne semble plus si pr\u00e8s. L\u00e0 on trouve aussi quelques lacs, l’un \u00e9tant naturels et l’autre utilis\u00e9 pour la location de diverses embarcations pour faire p\u00e9dalo ou barque, il y avait beaucoup de monde prenant du bon temps, et pas mal de couple, pic-niquant, ou se relaxant. Il y a aussi un petit temple avec de nombreux stands de nourriture \u00e0 proximit\u00e9, quelques cerisiers encore en fleurs, et j’ai aper\u00e7u quelques jeunes jouant au Baseball sur un terrain en plein milieu de ce parc.<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s cela, il \u00e9tait temps de rejoindre Hamamatsucho pour un premier tour organis\u00e9 nocturne. Nous avons commenc\u00e9 par d\u00eener au sommet d’un h\u00f4tel d’Odaiba au 21\u00e8me \u00e9tage, o\u00f9 j’ai pris un Sukiyaki de Boeuf, nous sommes ensuite aller sur la c\u00f4te de l’\u00eele d’Odaiba voir la statue de la libert\u00e9 avant de retraverser le Rainbow Bridge pour allez d\u00e9couvrir une vue panoramique de Tokyo depuis le 52\u00e8me \u00e9tage de la tour Mori dans le quartier de Roppongi d’o\u00f9 nous avons eu une fort belle vue nocturne de Tokyo. Et voil\u00e0, rendez-vous demain.<\/p>\n

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