Zurich - Tokyo - Nitori

After having been to Geneva, Bern, Zurich, Munich, Naples, Amsterdam and Utrecht (only counting work related places), we are finally back in Japan.
And Tokyo greeted us with sunny weather and mild temperatures around 15 degrees Celsius.
The flight home was relatively comfortable. We got a lot of rest (I’ll not go so far as to say sleep) thanks to the fact that we had four seat to ourselves, on which we laid ourselves down with some contortions. And rest we needed, because before our next rest, some obstacles had to be taken. Imagine arriving from the airport in a shiny new, but completely empty flat.


Even entering the flat took some preparation, since the original plan conceived by the agency included us going to some office in Ginza to pick up our keys coming directly from the airport. Many e-mails and some anxiety later, it was arranged that the agent would go pick up our keys herself on the weekend and then meet a friend of ours who would receive the keys and meet us at our flat the next day.
Without Ken, anyways, none of this would have been possible. Ken is already a Japan veteran, he speaks the language and knows his way around. More importantly, he can also drive a car in Japan. When we arrived at our flat from the airport, Ken was awaiting us with a rented car. Our first station was our office in Kashiwa, where all our belongings had been quietly sleeping in the last weeks. The next station was ニトリ (Nitori), something like a Japanese version of IKEA. Our number one concern was naturally our next night’s sleep, so a futon mattress, a pillow and some bed linen were purchased.

Fuji-san at sunset, as seen from Asakusa

When we, our stuff and our new mattress were finally all assembled in our new flat, it was past four pm and the sun prepared to set behind a few scattered clouds over the roofs of Asakusa. And gazing West, towards the skyscrapers of Shinjuku, I recognized a familiar silhouette against the peach colored sky. From our roof terrace, through a gap between the tall buildings, Fuji-san is showing!

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