New Year in Tokyo Japan
Each year, the usual hassle ... New Year's Eve! I state that I have always been free from all party animal instinct at all costs! For years I worked the evening of December 31 in some theater, and made a quick toast with colleagues, racing to bed to rest for the recitation of January 1! Since my life has become more "normal" here to peep the problem of the end of the year, every time you solve the last: a dinner with friends, many, few, maybe a trip to town, an evening Two more special ...
This time, a wish I would have! I would like to experience a New Year in Tokyo! One thing fast but well organized! Here's the schedule: starting December 30 in the evening, so arrive seven hours ahead of time and not lose! So much of the rest in the hotel zone (perhaps at the Park Hyatt just not to miss anything!) And then off in the city!
Mmmmmh the first What to do? Asakusa, stroll among the stalls of the market, says the temple, to see how it will be 2011, and then a bit of relaxation Jakotsu yu onsen which is nearby! Then metro to Ikebukuro, dall'omino half hour massage and then shopping at Tokyu Hands, all those wonderful things that are useless here!
Meanwhile, it is almost time for dinner so better get back to the hotel in Shinjuku! On where to eat I still have some doubt, the very cool restaurant in the hotel with superb views of the city or just the usual Sushizanmai the fish market? Dunno, you could make a super cool cocktail in the hotel and suitably dressed up with something more simple then go for a feast of sushi and ... midnight? A Shibuya, of course, in the midst of the world's busiest crossroads in the midst of millions of people, including lost! While we're here you could make a leap into a disk Truzzi among those we have back there or in Roppongi! The
January 1 is an important moment, is the first glimpse of the new year and you can not go to sleep! We should do all the good things that we do throughout the year and spend it with loved ones! We must start with a prayer, or at least most intimate thoughts. No matter who or how we believe, a temple, a church, a statue ... it's the same thing, so I'll visit a temple, as is used here in the first year, but not in Tokyo! I want to go to see Mount Fuji in the snow, get into a small temple and light incense, and then take a walk with snowshoes on snow-covered slopes and search for a natural onsen in the woods in which to throw a hot bath, in silence ... I wonder how it will smell the cold, dry mountain air mixed with steam from the ferruginous ...
Here comes the dark early, it is time to go down ... down to earth!