tokyotokyotokyo

So we're back in Tokyo at the Crowne Metropolitan again. 3 weeks on the road went incredibly fast, and now I'm back in the same hotel with the bizarre feeling of coming home to a place that seemed so incredibly strange 3 weeks ago. Tokyo is soo incredibly insanely big. Big doesn't seem to describe it... it just goes on and one and everything is huge and everything is immense. And for some reason as we drove in there was an immense fireworks display over the highway. It was kind of a 'lost in translation' moment as we drove in on the 2nd down level of a three level highway that is actually built on top of a river, so the legs dig into the water and overhead, or at least what we could see over head, there were spectacular fireworks going off...

..greeted at the door with a 'Welcome Back' from the doorman and we all wandered out to our favourite restaurant in the neighbourhood. (Sesame ramen noodle soup with roast pork and spinach...yeah!)So I'm home... strange how quick the strange becomes comfortable. We even arrived on the same night as the two buses of Russian Opera singers who we ran into in one of the smaller towns touring a production of Carmen... so the hotel is overrun with neurotic Broadway singers and dancers and even more neurotic Russian opera singers.





Today was in the immense hall at Yokohama. So I finally managed to get to Old Yokahama... it doesn't actually look that old anymore...




but it has amazing docklands and if we'd had more than 15 minutes before the show to check it out, perhaps we would have found the oldest largest chinatown in Japan and the old foreigners graveyard from the 1800's.





The show was great!... packed hall and many encores... the tap number was particularly invigorating... we asked the conductor to pick up the tempo a bit since we know it quite well now... so it moved along at quite a clip..