Sunday: 5 days

I spent a large chunk of the day doing nothing, and wondering what it was in the back of my head that kept pointing out that I was going to do something today.

Turns out that something was "plan what you're going to do in Tokyo, because you're leaving soon."

Oops.

Ok, quick list time:

1. Imperial Palace.  I think tickets are gone, but the gardens are open for walking.
2. Museum of the Imperial Collections.  I think this is in the same basic place, so these are probably the same day.
3. Tokyo Tower.
4. Meiji shrine.
5. Tsukiji market?
6. Akihabara.
7. Edo museum.  Hey, I like museums.
8. Yasukuni shrine?  I'm not a politician, so I probably won't have to deal with any strongly worded letters from diplomats.
9. Ueno park?  This seems to have the highest density of museums possible.
10. I like tall places when they are made of steel and concrete.

In any case, I should start making a plan.  London was easy.  Day 1: wander around London, see the Tate.  Day 2: regret only having one day to see the British Museum.  I think I've caused myself problems by allocating more than two days to Tokyo.  There are more variables to minimize.

Or maximize.  See, travel math is even more complicated then I originally thought.  The other thing is that a bunch of the "things to do in Tokyo" pages I find seem to be more "here's how to pretend you're in Lost in Translation."  Even though it'll be obvious, I don't want to go be an annoying tourist.  Everybody hates tourists.

"Hey! Losers!  You done gawking yet?  Some of us have jobs here, you know.  Who do you think resets the avaricious once people like you are done looking at them?  Me.  Phillip the Demon of the Fourth Circle.  Fucking tourists."

• For reference.
• That's bullshit.
• I'd hope that eventually they'd learn to act in their own best interests, but it's likely going to be a lot of complaining about the very things that help them before that happens.
• That's bullshit.
• I think you can legally stab someone if they do this.  I'm pretty sure about that.
• Why do we not have someone making new art deco style things?  The design is done, you just need to get the aluminum stamped out.
• It's nice to live in a state where the legislative "special session" isn't being used to fuck people over.