I'm on the tail end of my journey now, I'm on my way back to the United States on Monday with a short stop over in Tokyo to avoid the higher air fares that were apparently associated with stuff going on in Hong Kong or something. In any event, I am here in the technical mecca of the free world.
That said, folks in Japan need to do a tad better helping foreigners be able to function in the country. My gripe this time is ATM machines. There are lots of ATM machines and some of them even have the right symbols on them for banking networks that I use in the states. Nevertheless, the system rejects my card when I try to use it. Annoying.
The hotel I'm staying in is the Dai-Ichi Hotel Tokyo and it is an excellent hotel and I was able to get it at relative bargain pricing compared to other hotels in Central Tokyo, and at the same time - it is better than most hotels I've gone to in the US that charged 2-3 times more (in US dollars).
The other thing that takes some getting used to is the Yen->Dollar conversion. Not sure why they don't just divide everything by 100 or something to make the denominations smaller.
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