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nostromo in hello-kitty land, day 1

it has been a very long day for me. i left linz hoersching at
11:35 and arrived at the hotel at 05:00. this makes 12:00 local-
time. i got my first impression of japan at the departure hall
for my flight vienna to narita. there were only asian people
(besides five or six non-asian ones) most probably all japanese.
another funny thing: one of them was reading "lost in translation",
nice coincidence. then we all got on board. narrow seats, my
legs are too long, but at least i had a seat next to the window.
usually i consider flights as lost time, since i usually don't
do any usefull things (besides reading newspaper). i thought this
would apply to this eleven hour flight too, but i was wrong. i
did things that i already wanted to do several times, but never
took the time to do them. so, the first thing was watching
"chronicles of spiderwick", the second one was watching "10,000
B.C.", and the third one was watching "i am legend". though i
fell asleep when watching this will smith movie. but two hours
later i got woken up for breakfast, and guess what i could 
continue to do? right, they loop the films, so i (almost) 
finished "i am legend". i think i'm still missing the last five
to ten minutes, but landing instead was ok too. oh, one more
funny thing: from linz to vienna i crossed hagenberg. nice
view from the airplane. but up to now i did not take a single
photo. handling all the luggage, being really tired and most
probably a littel jetlagged kept me from getting out my cam.

so, i was at the airport, got some money from the ATM (very
important, since i did not pay for the hotel yet). and made my
way through the airport to keisei line going to nippori,
changing to joban line, and going to minami-senju. that's
where my hotel is. on my way to the train-station a japanese
woman asked me where i want to go. i told her to minami-senju
and she asked the local conductor, and then, the three of
us went to an elevator bringing me to my platform. on the
train i read my printed out map, but this attracted another
japanese man, asking me where i want to go. i told him
minami-senju and he explained to me when to get off the train,
etc. ok, i'm obviously a tourist (non-asian, big bags), and
these people were so friendly - this definitely is a WTF?
for a european.

well, besides that loads of stereotypes have proven to be true:
japanese tend to sleep a lot, even when they're standing in the
train/metro. japanese type on their mobile-phones all the time,
even when they're standing in the train/metro. japanese are
friendly. japanese teens have school-uniforms. i wittnessed my
first earthquake here in tokyo. i was looking at the various
floors of the hotel when suddenly, i was on floor 10 the ground
was shaking. i looked out of the window, but the people on the
streets did not seem to notice it. i was told tokyo inhabitants
do not call this little shaking an earthquake. hmmmm... ok.

i already saw a few shrines and gardens when looking out of
the train-window, but no cats so far. i guess it's way too
hot for them. my hotel-room has a air-conditioning too,
yippieh. ah, yeah, and a wireless network. the room itself
is very small ("3-tatami-mat") but sufficient for my needs.
the toilets have a "western style" part and a "traditional
style" part. i think i prefer the western style...

it's now almost 13:00 localtime (06:00 CEST) and i'll try to
get to odaiba. this time i take my camera with me. but first,
i'll take a shower.

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