First impressions.

One fun thing about Japan is that once you connect to the internet, you need to explicitly tell all of your google-affiliated websites to load in English. This wouldn't be a problem really, as it's pretty obvious that "pasuwaado" is "password", except that the US google and the Japanese google give you completely different results for the same query. I have no idea why that should be.

Another fun thing is that if you are in Japan and it is June, as it is now, you will feel sticky from the humidity basically all the time. You will also have to look forward to this sensation getting worse, rather than better, for the proceeding six weeks. You will not know how to do your laundry at this time, because there is no dryer and the clothes lines on the roof of your building are constantly being rained upon.

However, you will find that, even 5000 miles away from home, there is still a Starbucks every three or four blocks, and the interior decoration is exactly the same.

More later, when I feel less disgusting.