It was a mid afternoon of early January when I was standing on a platform in Tokyo Station. The sun was on the sky shining the whole city, the temperature hit 10 degree: almost like. As I kept staring at the direction where the bullet train was supposed to run into, I noticed my hands and legs were shaking steadily.
"That's it. This is what we've waited for years."
I thought myself. She and I were finally going to see each other in person within 5 minutes.
We started mailing back and forth in mid 2012, and because it was so long period of the time, I don't know how many mails we sent each other. Midnight mails, some seriously secret topics I had never told anyone else. As well as E-mail, we shipped foods, letters, small gifts, whatever we thought it would nice to hand it.
I believe we knew each other so much now, despite the fact that we had actually never directly spoken over the phone.
As the train arrived and many passengers went out of the door with their luggage. Among them, I found a young woman looking around to seek something, or, someone. Beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's her. A few seconds after that, she recognized me as well, and then we finally hugged and greeted. Although I had imagined the moment of our very first meeting for hundreds times in my mind, it looked as if I was still in the dream. But of course, it was the moment when the dream finally came true.
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We had discussed what we would do together in Tokyo, and apart from a few things, we did them all:
Early visit in Tsukiji fish market (we left our home at 4 o'clock),
Ready to eat? ;) And of course...
a bowl dish filled with a variety of fish and shell! So cool!
Since we're both interested in the culture of Japan, we headed to the Kabuki theatre in Ginza to watch a traditional show, and also,
Here it is, Sumo wrestling match stadium in Ryogoku. It's a
story to tell by the way. As Sumo stadiums are gradually famous and popular
destination to foreigners, it begins to hard to get the ticket in advance, plus,
it usually takes several hundreds dollars for each. Thus, it's not something we
can visit daily basis. So, what should we do?
We joined a queue for non-reserved tickets in the
dawn (again!). It wasn't comfortable to wait for two and a half hours in the
cold temperature and strong wind, but we made it after all :)
Of course, we have so many delicious cuisines in the duration
of her stay. We found a neat French restaurant in Shibuya, as well as a Japanese
Restaurant where we can enjoy puffer fish and shabushabu. Also, we regarded eating
home-made meals as important events, and we cooked our soul foods and things we
both love.
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It was a huge pleasure to invite her to me. My apartment can hardly say good as an accommodation, thevertheless, she decided to come. That's one reason why I tried to do my best to make her stay as comfortable as possible.
It was lovely weeks
we experienced in this months January, and hopefully we will be able to see and
have such wonderful days again soon :) From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
ありがとうね！＾＾
