I checked out the way til Shinagawa station where I’m supposed to take the N’EX train to Narita terminal 2. From door to platform that was 25-30 minutes.

All in all, I had a good time here. Wasn’t bored at all, even though the stay in one place was pretty long. But!

The grass is always greener…
Zoals het klokje thuis tikt…

Well, it is true. The grass truly is greener back home because of the lack of concrete.

As for Japan, it’s still as friggin _nuts_ as it was three years ago. To grasp the insanity of it, close your eyes and think of home – then open your eyes. Shoxx!

I think, if you combine the “coldness” of the British, the sync tv of the Germans and a small bit of arrogance from the French and you put it on MAJOR CUTESY HAPPY DRUGS, that is Japan. I also don’t know any other place that’s so obsessed with health and and (weird) beauty tips. At some point, you start thinking there is something extremely sick about that. It’s good to watch out for your health and stuff, but it sort of borders ‘brainwashing’ at times. Specifically Tokyo has a tendency to “shut down reality”. Truth be said, that’s what Japanese do themselves. If you see them in a train: always working on them phone buttons or headphones on. They “block” it and others themselves. It’s different in the countryside of course, but as a white person in their countryside you really have no clue what’s what anymore. You are a freak show that might cause car accidents.

The place has nothing in common with the Netherlands. Absolutely zero. I always come back to the answer that the truth just simply is: Dutch have no culture. They have no traditions of their own, they have no foods of their own (or very little). It’s always been about “Hi, how are you doing? Import/ Export Yah?. I bring big ship, just toss it in.” And what did we bring them in return? “Delfs blue”. Ok, a bit exaggerated, but you get the point.