Japlagged in Jetlan

Now in Japan, staying in a Japanese Inn (foreigner friendly) around 20 minutes from the CBD.

Within 15 minutes of arriving here - which took 4 hours itself from landing - I was learning how to do a Japanese Tea Ceremony -- Best. Green Tea. Ever.

But I think the next few days are going to be blurry as I recover from jetlag in an alien* country.

* Alien because the people here have manners and are helpful and stuff.

Update cause this didn't work last night.

I had proper Japanese Noodles in this tiny noodle bar late at night surrounded by man reading manga, drinking beer, and listening to j-rock. Some drunk Japanese dude accosted me in the street and started speaking to me in what he thought was English but was just consonants. The only bit I understood was him saying "Drink?" expectantly. I declined cause I was jetlagged.

The Guest Inn is awesome. THey do breakfast for $6AU which would be cheap for a hostel doing bread and cereal. This was a full breakfast of bacon and eggs and cereal and coffee and fruit and so on. Even more impressive, it was properly waited. "Would you like another coffee Sir?" HELL YES. I wanted to extend my stay here cause its just that great, if at a cheap hotel price, but they're booked out. Little wonder. Shame, I would've liked to spend Saturday night in Tokyo rather than Kyoto but I'm working on that.

Anyway, must run and see some of Tokyo. I have no intentions of being Lost In Translation and wallowing in my pitiful parochicalness. Jetlag is easy to deal with if you're used to being tired all the time.