We had fun with Kates friends. You wouldnt believe the feast they made for us! They also poured cup after cup of excellent green tea - I went zinging towards the ceiling but am ok now.
Tokyo is interesting. We have been exploring our hotels neighborhood. It is a historic district with a pagoda and other interesting buildings. We will figure it all out and let you know. It is also a major shopping and restaurant area. Lots of stores very close to each other, but they are doing better business than those in Kathmandu or Pokara. It must be really a place for locals since the menus and signs are almost all in Japanese. This is more disorienting than Nepal, where we generally managed to find info. in English.
Tokyo is a shock after Nepal - a very modern city, just like New York only different. I will try to express that better after we have ve done more exploring. It seems in touch with the rest of the world. One of Nepals problems is that it was isolated for many years and is still remote and hard to get to. Some thoughtful Nepalis think that this why a generally repudiated ideoliogy like Maoism can be taken seriously. I am not sure if this is the whole story; people are responding to extreme poverty as well. But rigid ideology sure is not the answer.
That is it for now. We are here for two more nights, more later. PG
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