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Day 7 "Not Leaving the Hotel"
Coming back now and realizing the lack of pictures I took on this day is really disappointing. Stupid typhoon. We got hit and all I could worry about was to not get my camera wet. I guess it's times like these where one of those water proof cameras would be useful. Well, in any case at least I can say I've lived through a typhoon now. I think the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane is just what side of the world it's on. I saw no difference between the two. There was wind, lots of rain, etc. There was no debris flying every where but it's Japan, there isn't enough stuff to blow around. That, and there's not enough space for something to gain enough momentum to blow into anything and damage it. You can't go 15 feet without hitting a building so naturally a 2x4 can only go a little bit. The buildings blocked most of the wind anyways. With all the earthquakes they get and all the typhoons they get hit by I think the Japanese have grown a callous to natural disasters. Tough little bastards. Well, because I don't have a lot of pictures you're going to see a lot of stuff like this:
Look it's a bathroom! You may be wondering why the toilet seat is pink. Well you see, the toilet seat isn't actually pink. There's something on top of it that is pink. It's like a fuzzy, pink toilet cozy. I don't know why it's there but I just had to take a picture of it. That, and if you look closely you can see this...
I don't know what this says but what I really hope it says is this: "Women, please take note. You are grown up enough to check to see if the toilet seat it up. If it is put it down then do your business." Yeah, I'm an asshole. The TOTO company is the main toilet company over there. I think they have a toilet monopoly. Everywhere in Japan was a TOTO toilet. I did not see one non-TOTO toilet. Even when I came back to American I see TOTO toilets!
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There was
some wind at the beginning of day 7. We eventually found out it was a
typhoon. At the time however we just wanted to stay inside the hotel cause
it really was lovely. It was packed full of cool things like this giant
dragon head. This thing was as big as I was. I wish I took more
pictures but I really was walking around in really uncomfortable slippers
(because they were too small) and in a kimono with no pockets. I
specifically went and got my camera to take this picture. I don't remember
why though... oh well. This was pretty big and therefore mildly
impressive.
