Touchdown in Tokyo...

...Around 6-ish on Friday. The bus ride from Narita was nice and Yokohama is beautiful at night, especially the view of the downtown area, Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock ferris wheel. No pictures, unfortunately. I was so exhausted I slept most of the way home and only had enough energy to take a peek as we drove by.

Got home to a completely empty (and itty bitty) apartment about the size of our old apartment's living room, roughly 250 square feet (23 square meters). It's decent though, and hubby and I are determined to turn it into a cozy little place. Our landlady is super nice. When we arrived the she sent her sister (who speaks both French and English!) to pick us up from the bus terminal because she had last minute commitment and could not come meet us herself. In the mean time, Mrs. landlord arranged for NTT (Japan's virtual landline monopoly) to come wire our cable and thus we got internet up and running the very next morning ^.^ The last time I was in Japan, I went through a communication black out period of about 6 weeks and let me tell you, technological isolation in the age of the internet is just unbearable. So glad we didn't have to go through that again. Phew.

But boy oh boy 5 years made a difference in technological advancement. My internet provider back then was Yahoo Broadband Japan (Yahoo BB), and the speed was something crazy like 100Mps dowload and 15Mps upload. This time it's through NTT and the speed is now 200Mps download and 100Mps upload! Holy crap I can download everyone and their brothers in minutes!!!