01 May, 2015

Adeventures in Tokyo!!!!!

You woke up this morning at 7:30 which for you is sleeping in late compared to your usual 5:40 wake up time. You're overjoyed, today you are going shopping in the big city of Tokyo! Of course, you travel from your hometown of Oiso, in Naka Distict, to Tokyo every weekend to visit your older brother who is training to be a computer coder. You have gone shopping there a few times before with your friends, but you have to be very cautious while shopping in Tokyo. The Tokyo stores are always jam packed because of the high population density. As you and your friends board the train to Tokyo, people behind you are suddenly shoved into you, so annoying right? Then, you hear the train doors close. You and your friends exchange nervous looks as you all realize you are basically packed into a tin like sardines. Finally, after a grueling half hour of having no personal space at all, you arrive in Tokyo. You suddenly smell that unforgetable odor, the smell of pollution. It encircles you in a warm, sticky, thick, cloud as the train doors open. You barely have time to realize it because you and your friends are half running, half being shoved out of the train. Once you get out onto the platform, everyone decides they need a nice refreshing drink. You exit the train station in a torrent of people and walk to the nearest Starbucks for a nice grande caramel ribbon crunch frappuccino. Sadly, this Starbucks has a line down the street. So you and your friends make a mad dash to the Starbucks on the next block which is much less crowded, the line only goes 2/3 of the way to the door! Still, it takes everyone 40 minutes to get your coffees'. Now, you can finally go shopping. Slowly, yet surely your group weaves through the crowds to a new boutique that everyone's been talking about at school. There's a line to get into the front door but, you and your friends decide to wait in line. As you get closer and closer to the store's entrance, Toyko seems to get louder, but surprisingly smells better. Soon, while you are studying a super cute high waisted skirt in the window, you get bombarded by a spray of perfume. Which, actually smelled really good, like kind of like orange peel, vanilla, and peaches mixed together.You have to buy some! 15 minutes later your group finally makes it into the boutique. While you go in a sales lady is trying to geet some customers to leave. They are argued, the sales lady said,
"You have been here for five hours that is two hours past the time frame you could be here!"
"If you don't calmly leave now, I will have to call the police."
With that, the other customers left in a ranting group. Then, the sales lady apologizes for having such confusion. You and your friends begin to shop at the boutique, the clothes are a little pricey, but nothing you can't deal with. Then you find what you were looking for. The perfume, it's the last bottle on the shelf and another girl is quickly walking towards it yelling at other customers to get out of her way. You speed up up your pace and reach the perfume before she does. Thank goodness! You have heard stories about people fighting over items in Tokyo so you go back to the register and buy it. After that close call, you and your friends leave. Off to another store! The rest of the day goes well. Still, you are happy to return to Oiso after a long day of weaving through hoards of people.
What if this was normal for you here in the U.S.? What would you do?Image result for crowded store in Tokyo

4 comments:

  1. I would actually like it if the US was like Japan. I like big cities and crowds because you meet so many different people. Though I wouldn't want to be pushed out of a train, though going to random stores and random shops would be fun. There would be all sorts of food to try clothing to wear and people to meet so I would love to be there.

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  2. If this was in the US I think it would be more difficult to get from state to state to travel. I think we would have to make same high speed trains to get people to where they need to go faster than regular transportation that we have without the huge population like Japan does.

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  3. If this was in the US I think it would be more difficult to get from state to state to travel. I think we would have to make same high speed trains to get people to where they need to go faster than regular transportation that we have without the huge population like Japan does.

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  4. #soproud!
    This is great, Aud!

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