Move

We left Takatsuki (高槻) on a Friday morning after saying sayonara to Professor O, Vivian's boss in Osaka.

The train service of Japan is superb. We took JR and arrived at Kyoto in 20 minutes. There was Shinkansen (新幹線) train to Tokyo nearly every 10 minutes; in two-and-a-half hours Vivian and I found ourselves in the most busy city on earth.

My wife reserved an apartment at Hatchobori (八丁堀), which is one station by JR from the Tokyo terminal. We got there all right (despite quite a bit of effort with all our luggage). The problem was: Where should we be going ?

I had a Google map of that area - printed before I came here. We checked again with the map in the train station. In no time local Japanese observed a foreign couple pushing and pulling tons of belongings on the streets of this metropolitan.

But the roads did not appear the same as what's on the map - and so were the buildings. Many of you may know Google map has a satellite view and I had a bird's eye idea on the place before we set off.

We walked further and found the streets even more unfamiliar. Vivian asked a couple of people, but none seemed to have heard of the place that we were heading ...