too bad it wasn't off the yamanote line, had to switch a few trains to get their, shoulda stayed in Roppongi, maybe next time.
damn dude, that much?! that is like the cost of the hotel i stayed for almost a week!! must've been 5 star, you guys went all out in Tokyo! :hehe:
yeah i see your point but we stayed in roppongi hills at the grand hyatt first and then the park hyatt in shinjuku....i know i mentioned this before somewhere..sorry for repeating myself. but the park hyatt (which i remember you telling me you visited) was the more expensive hotel it was like 500 something i think. but both hotel were so fuggin' pimp...i felt like a king for a few days...the service there is IMPECCABLE...i MEAN AWESOME....i know for a fuggin fact that i could pay that kind of money staying in new york and the service would not be nearly as good.
the gym at the PARK HYATT was FUGGIN NUTS....
trust me i don't usually go bonkers like that when i travel but since i always wanted to go to japan since my early days in college i said "f*ck it"
yeah i see your point but we stayed in roppongi hills at the grand hyatt first and then the park hyatt in shinjuku....i know i mentioned this before somewhere..sorry for repeating myself. but the park hyatt (which i remember you telling me you visited) was the more expensive hotel it was like 500 something i think. but both hotel were so fuggin' pimp...i felt like a king for a few days...the service there is IMPECCABLE...i MEAN AWESOME....i know for a fuggin fact that i could pay that kind of money staying in new york and the service would not be nearly as good.
the gym at the PARK HYATT was FUGGIN NUTS....
trust me i don't usually go bonkers like that when i travel but since i always wanted to go to japan since my early days in college i said "f*ck it"
roppongi hills, didn't get a chance to visit that area, and that hotel row with all them love hotels(shibuya), missed out on that, maybe next time..
yeah, sometimes you gotta say *&#@! it and go for it. I went this past summer and enjoyed it, spend a few grand but hey, you gotta live it up once in awhile and enjoy it.....and hey it is Tokyo, things are just very costly there.
next time: i want to stay in Roppongi/Akiba and get me a 21 day JR pass, and see other parts of Japan! there is so much i didn't see the past two trips to Japan that i want to see. like Hiroshima, Nara, Sapporo, Saitama, Nikko, Kamakura, Osaka, more of Kyoto, etc.......
:bonk:
roppongi hills, didn't get a chance to visit that area, and that hotel row with all them love hotels(shibuya), missed out on that, maybe next time..
yeah, sometimes you gotta say *&#@! it and go for it. I went this past summer and enjoyed it, spend a few grand but hey, you gotta live it up once in awhile and enjoy it.....and hey it is Tokyo, things are just very costly there.
next time: i want to stay in Roppongi/Akiba and get me a 21 day JR pass, and see other parts of Japan! there is so much i didn't see the past two trips to Japan that i want to see. like Hiroshima, Nara, Sapporo, Saitama, Nikko, Kamakura, Osaka, more of Kyoto, etc.......
:bonk:
http://www.roppongihills.com/en/
yeah you got say f*Ck it sometimes..you only live once so i agree with you...
dude i know you like to work out that's why i mentioned the gym
the gym is on like the 45th floor and the walls are all glass and the treadmills are up against the glass facing outwards so you can see all of tokyo below you...from the 45th floor!!!! and you can even see mount fuji on a clear day....in front of your eyes...
each treadmill has a flat panel LCD display, ear phones, and has cable televison access and a remote control
did you know how cool it was to be on a treadmill looking at tokyo 45 floors down...it was like exhilarating!!
yeah you got say f*Ck it sometimes..you only live once so i agree with you...
dude i know you like to work out that's why i mentioned the gym
the gym is on like the 45th floor and the walls are all glass and the treadmills are up against the glass facing outwards so you can see all of tokyo below you...from the 45th floor!!!! and you can even see mount fuji on a clear day....in front of your eyes...
each treadmill has a flat panel LCD display, ear phones, and has cable televison access and a remote control
did you know how cool it was to be on a treadmill looking at tokyo 45 floors down...it was like exhilarating!!
oh yeah and the pool is in the middle of the floor that the gym is located on ...under a big ass pyramind shaped skylight
Sunday, Jun. 26, 2005 Best Gym with a View
Park Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan
BY JIM FREDERICK
With its dearth of parkland, frequent absence of sidewalks and maddening, labyrinthine layout, Tokyo is one of the world's worst cities to run in. But thanks to the Park Hyatt hotel, it is a marvelous metropolis to run above. Located in a soaring, 47th-floor rooftop atrium, atop one of architect Kenzo Tange's most iconic skyscrapers, the hotel's health club features six Life Fitness treadmills pushed to the vertiginous edge of 20-m-tall picture windows. As you climb on one and hit the start button, the sprawling cityscape of the world's most populous urban agglomeration spreads before you as an awe-inspiring, almost abstract object of heart-wrenching beauty. Highways and rivers intersect like rivulets of light, while patches of color—each one an illuminated city block—pulsate like flashing panels on a cosmic dance floor. Those who equate treadmills (or elliptical trainers, for that matter) with drudgery have obviously never been to the Park Hyatt Tokyo—except in Lost in Translation with Bill Murray, above. Because to those who have, the phrase "post-workout high" will never sound the same again.
If I ever go there, I'll try to stay at least a night there. :fingerscrossed:
yeah it's a lot of money...trust me i'm not a rich snob..but if you go with a friend, or two...then you can split the cost and then it becomes much more reasonable....i went with a friend so it was more affordable...
but the service there is so awesome it's nuts...i almost felt awkward because the service there is so UTTERLY INCREDIBLE...and there were a lot of good looking women on their staff, too...i remember eating at one of the restaurants...it was an insane experience...it was the best japanese food i've ever had in my life...granted it wasn't cheap....the waitresses were wearing these gorgeous kimonos that must have cost a fortune...they looked fabulous.
tabana wrote:Damn. Now I want to go there tonight. :puppydog:
me, too, will you take me with you...i actually spoke to the waitress that served my friend and i for lunch ...i wanted to wife her there on the spot...she was like perfect, man... :sweat:
after we paid the bill for the meal we had..it was lunch...we had to walk up these stairs from the restaurant to go back to the main lobby level...the staff that served us were bowing the ENTIRE time even while we were walking up the stairs with our BACKS to them...i looked over my shoulder that's how i knew...i was stunned, man...they were bowing LOW even with our backs to them...it was an experience that i never had before...and i don't think it will EVER be repeated in MY lifetime.
Tu_triky wrote:me, too, will you take me with you...i actually spoke to the waitress that served my friend and i for lunch ...i wanted to wife her there on the spot...she was like perfect, man... :sweat: ...
Ok. :mrgreen:
Tu_triky wrote:
after we paid the bill for the meal we had..it was lunch...we had to walk up these stairs from the restaurant to go back to the main lobby level...the staff that served us were bowing the ENTIRE time even while we were walking up the stairs with our BACKS to them...i looked over my shoulder that's how i knew...i was stunned, man...they were bowing LOW even with our backs to them...it was an experience that i never had before...and i don't think it will EVER be repeated in MY lifetime.
it's cool that a "regular" to this forum, appreciates that..because i swear on my life i'm not lying about this...i seriously felt weird...i mean ppl bowing to you EVEN with YOUR BACK turned to them?? your expression of "wow. just wow" is EXACTLY how i felt, tabana.
well here's another story...while my friend and i were staying at the park hyatt....we asked the concierge about this really expensive sukiyaki restaurant in akasaka near the imperial palace, right...it was called "yoshihashi."
the meal was divine...with the highest quality japanese beef....anyway...after we paid the bill...i asked this woman working at the restaurant in my feeble ass japanese what was the best way to get to the subway station..."chikatetsu...dochira no hau ga ii desu ka"
so this woman...wearing a kimono mind you..escorted us out the front door of the restaurant...and walked for a minute..(because the restaurant was not on a major street but was tucked in on a small street off of an alley)...and walked us to the major street...but then kept walking....left on another street...right on another street...(at this point my friend and i are looking at each other wondering what the f*ck is going on )..we are following this woman for over five minutes...wondering where the hell we are going right...she walked us to the entrance of the very subway station we needed to go to...
she bowed...wished us a good evening in japanese...and left..
MY FUGGIN JAW DROPPED! i was utterly flabbergasted...my friend and i looked at each other in utter DISBELIEF. i've travelled extensively throughtout the world and NEVER, EVER have i experienced such service...it was SURREAL, MAN!
I sure you can't get service like that anywhere else. Not even if you're a rock star.
EXACTLY! and trust me I am NO rock star...i felt embarrassed man. :ashamed: It was obviously not my intention for her to escort us ALL THE WAY to the subway station...trust me, it's an experience i wil never forget as long as I live. I have more storie to illustrate the point..but i don't wanna bore you...
and the thing to remember is I am a foreigner...gaikokujin...if i was japanese i guess it might be more understandable.
wow! that's surreal! I wouldn't know how I would react if that happened to me.. hehe probably like you, I'd be in shock.
Hmm.. i was actually thinking of enrolling to this summer program over at Tokyo. I was thinking of staying at the dorms during my stay there, but now that I've read all of your posts, it might just be better if I stay over at a hosts house. Man, well.. I still have a year to save for it, I better start saving more that i usually put aside every week! :shamefulcry:
I'm still a bit excited though, I've heard a lot of great things about study abroad. So I think all the hard work on savings would be worthwhile?!?!
hmm_yeh wrote:wow! that's surreal! I wouldn't know how I would react if that happened to me.. hehe probably like you, I'd be in shock.
Hmm.. i was actually thinking of enrolling to this summer program over at Tokyo. I was thinking of staying at the dorms during my stay there, but now that I've read all of your posts, it might just be better if I stay over at a hosts house. Man, well.. I still have a year to save for it, I better start saving more that i usually put aside every week! :shamefulcry:
I'm still a bit excited though, I've heard a lot of great things about study abroad. So I think all the hard work on savings would be worthwhile?!?!
nice to hear a new voice...i'll be honest...i wanted to study abroad in japan while i was in college but i didn't end up doing it and i regret it, trutfhully...i was all like "i'm going to miss out on sum college shiet at home while i'm abroad." in retrospect i can say i wouldn't have missed out on jack fuggin sh*t." i ENCOURAGE you do it!! it will be an experience that you will hold dear in your heart for the rest of your life! GO FOR IT!
i will say that my experience in japan was partially a product of staying at really expensive hotels, that have impeccable service but i do think GENERALLY ppl in japan are much MORE polite than those in the States...
Tu_triky wrote:...
and the thing to remember is I am a foreigner...gaikokujin...if i was japanese i guess it might be more understandable.
Good point. And it happened in Tokyo.
In a really small town that *could* have happened (Someone on the sidewalk going to the same place), but in Tokyo... A unarmed woman, on duty, escorting 2 foreigners in dark alleys for 5 minutes... :bow:
Tu_triky wrote:
nice to hear a new voice...i'll be honest...i wanted to study abroad in japan while i was in college but i didn't end up doing it and i regret it, trutfhully...
Good point. And it happened in Tokyo.
In a really small town that *could* have happened (Someone on the sidewalk going to the same place), but in Tokyo... A unarmed woman, on duty, escorting 2 foreigners in dark alleys for 5 minutes... :bow:
thank you for indulging me. :bow: but you obviously appreciate the point i'm trying to make...i was so utterly astounded it still makes an impression on me to this DAY despite the fact that it happened so long ago...
i'm not trying to glorify japanese society unecessarily but the behavior i encountered there AS A FOREIGNER still leaves a palpable impression on me...
nice to hear a new voice...i'll be honest...i wanted to study abroad in japan while i was in college but i didn't end up doing it and i regret it, trutfhully...i was all like "i'm going to miss out on sum college shiet at home while i'm abroad." in retrospect i can say i wouldn't have missed out on jack fuggin sh*t." i ENCOURAGE you do it!! it will be an experience that you will hold dear in your heart for the rest of your life! GO FOR IT!
i will say that my experience in japan was partially a product of staying at really expensive hotels, that have impeccable service but i do think GENERALLY ppl in japan are much MORE polite than those in the States...
hehe thanx for the nice welcome! :hehe: that's exactly what I've been thinking about, I'm afraid that i'll be behind with my school work. i actually wished I had this same enthuasiasm when I first started college, then it wouldn't be such a hard thing to decide on. But now, since I'm a nursing major, and it's completely difficult to get into a nursing program where I'm at, I start having all of these doubts b/c I'm suppose to finally start at this program. Then again, only thing holding me back was my pre-reqs. Anyway.. to make long story short, since I'm probably taking another year just to finish those damn pre-reqs, I was thinking of doing the spring of 2007 and summer semester over at Japan. But, I'm having a hard time looking for a university over there that's, well, let's say.. English medium, so that there will be classes that I can take there aside from the language and culture class.
I agree with you that this is an experience that shouldn't be passed up.I'm all for the experience and learning something, that's why I don't want to let this opportunity pass me by. Like I said, I wished I had this enthuasiasm about studying abroad 2 years ago, maybe then, I would've already been there right now having an unforgettable experience. :banghead:
hehe thanx for the nice welcome! :hehe: that's exactly what I've been thinking about, I'm afraid that i'll be behind with my school work. i actually wished I had this same enthuasiasm when I first started college, then it wouldn't be such a hard thing to decide on. But now, since I'm a nursing major, and it's completely difficult to get into a nursing program where I'm at, I start having all of these doubts b/c I'm suppose to finally start at this program. Then again, only thing holding me back was my pre-reqs. Anyway.. to make long story short, since I'm probably taking another year just to finish those damn pre-reqs, I was thinking of doing the spring of 2007 and summer semester over at Japan. But, I'm having a hard time looking for a university over there that's, well, let's say.. English medium, so that there will be classes that I can take there aside from the language and culture class.
I agree with you that this is an experience that shouldn't be passed up.I'm all for the experience and learning something, that's why I don't want to let this opportunity pass me by. Like I said, I wished I had this enthuasiasm about studying abroad 2 years ago, maybe then, I would've already been there right now having an unforgettable experience. :banghead:
i understand your dilemma...that being your enthusiasm for studying abroad came to you later than you had hoped...respecting that fact, i still admonish to go abroad to japan even it's only for ONE semester....i'm obviously not trying to dictate your life but trying to present your opportunities in simple terms...that being you are a young college student...if you have the ability and the wherewithal to study in japan for a few months do it......chances are you will NEVER have this opportunity again... SEIZE the DAY..CARPE DIEM! studying abroad for a few months will pass SO quickly...like a blink of an eye...yet you will probably have a memory for the rest of your life.
sorry for babbling i just want to encourage you to do it..since you seem willing. i'm sure you'll have a BLAST!
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