Welcome to Tokyo... This is Shibuya Crossing-- Take a look at all that human traffic! They have a special part of the traffic lights just for pedestrians so everyone can cross at once. After nearly getting trampled here a few times, I decided to take this picture from a bridge overlooking the intersection... Didnt matter though, I almost got ran over here too! 
This is one of the many underground shopping arcades (called Chikagai 地下街) To get an idea of just how huge these things are, think about the biggest shopping mall you've been in, and put it all underneath city streets, and above subway stations. You can literally walk for about 2 miles under this one, walk into department stores and restaraunts and get back on the subway without ever seeing daylight! Best of all, from the street, you would never even know that this even existed...
I know I said I'd update this blog with a daily account of my trip here, but truth is, I've been leaving the GuestHouse here early, and coming back late-- usually so late that I go straight to sleep when I get here... Terrible I know.. So Ill try to update this thing all at once while I have some time today. This is me here on Dotobori which is a famous area of Osaka. If you know anything about this place, this is where you can come to get some of the best food in all Japan. Not too far from here is a place called Den Den Town. It's Osaka's answer to Tokyo's Akihabara-- you can get anything electronic there. I bought a 1Gig MP3 player for arounf $100 US... It would be about $150 back home... Im having a great time as always, and stay tuned-- More to come!
This is an experiment of sorts to try to tie together my online identity and my offline personality. I've made plenty of business oriented sites, but I have never actually put together one for myself personally... With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace along with blog sites like Blogger and Twitter, I find that I have cut a wide swath here in the internet, in terms of being actively online, but there isn't one place to really tie that information together. So this will be an attempt at doing so.
