Caution! I'm not going to proofread this (I'm in a hurry)- please excuse the inevitable typos!
Sorry for the delay- I was busy being a tourist for the last few days! We had our final orchestra concerts for MMCJ, first in Tokyo at Kioi Hall and then in Yokohama at Minato Mirai Hall. In the free time between concerts, I went to Sankeien Garden with some friends- beautiful place, and I put up a lot of pictures in my Picasa album for Yokohama. (Gotta run in a second, so I'll add links later).
Then, I arrived in Tokyo yesterday for a few days of fun between festivals. We (a few MMCJ friends) went to Akihabara, the electronics district. I'd been impressed by the J&R store in New York, but the one store we went to was easily several times bigger, and just one store of MANY.
Pictures coming later! Also, we made a stop for ramen in Shibuya, which looks like Times Square, but with way more and way bigger video screens, and FAR more people. Supposedly, the main intersection outside the station has the highest pedestrian volume of any place in the world. Something cool about the giant video screens- somehow, they've figured out how to configure the audio for each screen so that you can clearly hear the sound for whatever screen you're facing, but it's not so loud that it really interferes with the other screens so much.
Time to go- Kamakura today! Pictures soon.
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