Tokyo here we are

Tokyo tower from our hotel room window

We have 2 hours between flights on the way home from Japan. Now in Seoul Airport. I thought I had better update the blog before we arrive back in Australia tomorrow.
90 mins it took to drive by bus from the Airport into Tokyo City. We realised what a huge place it was. The road network looked so complex even though they were driving on the left hand side of the road. The expressway is about 8-10 stories high sometimes it was 4 or so levels of intertwining roads. Glad he was driving not us. Our first impression was of nothing that showed we were in Japan. It was all buildings and more skyscrapers than we had ever seen. We passed over many canals and over a lot of bridges. It strikes us that it is so pristine and clean. Can't see any people though..where are they all? We find out later where they all are. Our plug to convert the power was the incorrect one so just on dark we set out to find one. What we didn't know was they were sending us to Electric City..the one you see in the books and on TV. We actually managed to find our way around the VERY complicated metro system. As we got on the train we found out where all the people are. Thousands and thousands of business men and women ..mostly men with their laptops, mobile phones and suits live in the underground. A lot of them live 90 mins by train and commute 6-7 days a week. They work long hours as each time we caught the train even quite late at night the stations are still packed..extraordinary. To get on the train you basically backed in and stood cheek to cheek or back to back with total strangers. I don't think they would have a chance to stop H1N1 from spreading even though a lot of people were wearing face masks. It was exhilarating to say the least to get to our station and home again without getting lost once. In the subway it is like watching ants moving around an ant nest, everyone going in all directions with occasional people stopping to talk, all this without bumping into each other and all going about their own business. More about the subways later. Don't attempt it unless one or both of you can think laterally. The minute we stepped on to the platform we realised what a crazy place Tokyo is. It is definitely alive and kicking. So exciting. Electric City is floors and floors of electrical and electronic equipment of all the brands you could imagine in dozens of buidlings all out yelling each other with their specials lights flashing neon blinking everwhere. It was gob smackingly awesome . We actually found the plug as well.
Our accomodation was right next to Tokyo Tower so upon returning we went up to see the enormity of Tokyo and were not disappointed. Our Japanese is nearly non existent so ordering food is fun. Twice we have ordered from the pictures on the English menu and twice we got what we think was liver and tripe. Never mind the experience of eating at little hole in the wall places is fantastic. Their local beer is great also. Moving from our accom next day was very easy thanks to Kosei as he gave us great directions. It was great idea to move because Tokyo is so huge that each area is very different.