Japan: Day 1 - 25.2.2008

So here I am, on the other side of the globe. The world feels really small when you can quite easily fly here and use the Internet as from home. But nevertheless I am 8000km away from home.

The first day has been quite tough. Almost no sleep in the plane, via the hotel directly to the workplace. We started working at 11am local time and it is not 12pm and I am back at the hotel finally, hopefully, getting some sleep.

First of all, I want to say how I miss my Sanna. It is really hard to be for the first time away from the one you love. But I guess I have to do my job...

Japan is a wonderful place, part 1:

1) Canned coffee - Hot coffee, in a vending machine, from a metal can. Yes, it's all in Japan! This is how the local employees have their coffee break. They take something from the vending machine (costing about 100 yens) and having a cigar. And yes, even the coffee (with and without milk and/or sugar!) is from a vending machine. Fascinating, yet frightening.

2) Electronic toilets - I arrived into my hotel room and I could not figure out how to use the toilet. Wow! That's a new one! In the toilet, there was a large remote control with some rather frightening looking symbols and maybe luckily none of them worked when I pressed them. Ok, I then realized that the toilet is flushed beside the bowl itself... I was so reliefed that it actually worked.


I will continue to list odd things from this wonderful culture :) But I love the people, they are so friendly! The city is a large metropol but it is so clean that Paris should be ashamed of itself.

But now some sleep - after 30 hours or so.