Well sorry it's been awhile, but i've found wireless and I can blog finally.
    To start things off i would like to say something important that has come up recently. Not only do my friends read this blog, but so do my parents and family members. Let's keep things G rated from now on.
    Anyways the places listed in the above title are districts in Tokyo. Each have very different feels to them, but they were all amazing to visit. We met up with my Japanese intern from last year at Mizzou and her and another friend of ours gave us the grand tour.  
    We started off in Asakusa which is known for its many different shrines and old architecture. We visited a few temples and and walked around for the first part of the morning. I ended up making an offering to the local shrine and getting my fortune for the year. It wasn't then best fortune lol. When you receive a bad fortune you're supposed to tie it around a cross bar not too far from the shrine. The catch is you can only use one hand and it has to be your less dominant hand. After battling the bar for hours on end (not really) I finally managed to get it done.
    After Asakusa we went to Akihabara again, which like I said previously is called the electric town. We started off visiting the numerous electronic stores where it is very easy to spend hundreds of dollars or tens of thousands of yen like I did. I ended buying an electric dictionary for 30,000 yen. Aside from making you breakfast and washing your clothes it has a feature that lets it recognize kanji that you write on the touch screen. It has come in handy at least 30 times each day since then. We ended your visit to Akiba by going to a maid cafe. A maid cafe is basically a place where old salary men go to get drinks and talk to the pretty waitresses that will laugh at any joke they tell. Sounds like a Hooters right?   
    From Akiba we went to Yokohama which had some amazingly beautiful parks and an incredible view of the bay. From Yokohama we took the train through Ginza which is basically the rich district. We walked through the 5 floor mall that connected to the subway station and visited numerous stores where we looked, but never bought anything lol. since there wasn't much to do in Ginza we decided to make our way to Minato.
    The thing tha Minato is known for is the Tokyo tower. We went straight there and rode the elevator the the midway point. The view was simply astonishing. you could see for miles in every direction and the best past was it was sundown when we made it there. After walking in circles for a bit i heard some sweet jazz music and decided to go look for it. One floor down from the viewing deck there was a small club called club 333. A group by the name of Jazz explosion was playing and i decided to stay and listen. I ended up listening to the rest of the performance and afterwards talked to the band with my broken Japanese and bought their CD. At this point I was incredibly tired to I took the subway back to our hotel (hotel sakura) in Jimbochyo.

Never underestimate the power of automatic doors. I was walking out of the elevator today and it was beginning to close so i put my hand out. Normally in America the door would instantly stop, but it seems that there is a good 2 second delay here lol. My entire shoulder got slammed in between the doors and it hurt. These doors weren't just playing around, they were playing for keeps!
    My cold is starting to subside and i'm pretty much back to normal :D I'm extremely glad I didn't really suffer much from the jet lag because i probably would have had to stay in bed all week.
    Today we visited Shibuya which is another district in Tokyo. Shibuya is famous for its fashion and clothing. We saw a lot of interesting shirts and styles. It seems that the fashion among men/boys is a mix between baggy ghetto looking clothes and rock star get ups. English words and phrases are also pretty popular, but they don't make sense half of the time.
    Just a few hours ago we went to Akiba again to hang out. My friend Andrew plays a fighting game called guilty gear and is one of the best players in the U.S. Compared to the top players here though he stands somewhere in the lower tier. Although he has lost most of the matches he has played (around 20) he still enjoys playing and considers it practice. Some of the video games here are amazing!
    more to come so stayed tuned!