5 hrs through tokyo . 2 / 3




Dawn came a little after four. It wasn't really until after the sky got light that my feet started hurting and I felt the first signs of a hangover. But it is always that dawn time that makes you aware of your stomach and a lack of sleep ; I would like to live in one of those countries that experiences perpetual darkness for a few months.

Anyway, we managed to keep going on convenience store purchases. Sometimes we became reckless, mio recalls a "chewy sweety drink" that "wasn't good" and made her "a bit sick". I had some beers, an energy drink, and then splashed out on a canned cocktail, a fuzzy navel or moscow mule, the precise details have escaped me.



Here is a building or collection of buildings that I liked a bit, if you look closely at the pink flag/sign it says something about a robot, "a store robot" perhaps? this place ? An over priced shop for punk-descendants? But a nice shop front nevertheless, which I mistook for a hyper configuration of apartments.
Mio's younger brother is a sort of store detective.



Pressing on for some reason (around 5 the trains resume running), the sore feet and empty stomach feeling . . . what sorry adventures await in the grey laconic tokyo dawn?

- to be continued -

4 comments:

  1. I want to live here for a bit:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8
    -kate

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  2. that certainly looks like a nice place to live what with the northern lights and things. Although I am not sure about the prevalence of house music. . . Perhaps that isn't the case anymore.

    -- the biosphere person is from there, I had a copy of the album using debussy, it was good/

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  3. Does he investigate the stores themselves? i.e. going around the city unearthing tiny little gems of stores that no one knows about. Or does he stand by a door with a nice uniform watching for people up to no good in the stores?
    I wonder what the percentage difference is between shoplifting in the northern outpost of Liverpool and the eastern outpost of Japan. (Disclaimer: neither can strictly be described as outposts).

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  4. like an anti shop lifting guard person.

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