When me and @Bitman went to Tokyo 🗼 we were going to the arcade/games thing in Tokyo tower but I'n the lobby there was an bitcoin ATM right there in one of Tokyo's most famous attractions
Also how can I insert images from let's say my gallery to post
So you are @Bitman 's son?
Indubitably
It's good to have you here.
Son audibly said,
when you zapped him.
The reason being?
You'd knocked his walled down from 21,069 sats.
The good news though - he's changed his default zap to 69 to make up for it.
Haha 69 nice 👍👍👍
The ATM had a really good price $20k at the time (comparable with exchanges). Lots of KYC and app download needed tho.
The VR and AR games were the best. My son wiped the floor with me obviously...
Good entertainment for the watching crowd though!
Can’t wait to see the pics. Was Tokyo like an attack on the senses for you? How did you perceive it?
Image uploads are in the pipeline and will be added to SN news pretty soon, I believe.
For now:
not OP, but i've visited a couple of times. it's definitely cramped in terms of space and some neighborhoods (shibuy, akihabara) might fit that definition of, "an attack on the senses" because of the sheer volume of people and signage, but overall it's a very clean, modern metropolis.
i had an internship in chicago right after my first time in tokyo and the transition back was...horrendous. tokyo was way cleaner, safer, and quieter, and it made chicago seem like hell on earth.
I still can't understand how there's no trash cans - but also no trash anywhere.
Everywhere was completely spotless!
We loved it, and want to return, but next stop, Berlin (yes, I'm serious). I'm a big Eno, Iggy and Bowie fan - and love to look around the Bohemian and Bitcoin places.
Yeah the no trash cans thing was weird! I remember my friends and I kept talking about it. Our best guess was that the people just held onto it until they went home or something
Find the nearest convenience store like 7 Eleven to dispose your rubbish. That’s what I always do haha
Plus, yes, even in the very heart of Tokyo - the world's biggest city - it does feel incredibly safe there.
Yep, everything but everything was wonderfully unique and different.
I had Blade Runner in my head whilst my son had Ghibli in his. Neither of us were at all disappointed. Beautiful people, beautiful places. We both had what we can only describe as a trip of a lifetime.
We ticked off everything on our 'Japanese bingo card' - except an employee wearing a store mascot costume. Lots of catchy ear-candy store tunes ringing in our ears months later though!
Could you share what was on your Japan bingo card? Sounds like fun!
Oooh, it might be a bit long, but here goes sensei!
Tokyo Tower
Conveyor belt sushi
Running man symbol
Mount Fuji
Bullet train
Sumo wrestlers
Japanese baseball
Bullet Trains
Crossing at Shibuya
Maid costumes
Cosplayers
Pachinko
Buddhist shrines
Shinto shrines
Vending machines
Hiroshima
Mario carts in the street
Cabs with electric doors and white gloved and capped drivers
Karaoke
Godzilla peeking over building
Imperial gardens
Electronic toilets
Cicadas
Older Kyoto
I might have forgotten one or two though.
We knew we'd missed Ghibli Park
and totally forgot to look out for the shop run by a dog and the giant tortoise being walked in the street.
Phew, and we saw all this in just over 2 weeks!
Hardoff
Forgot about that one monsieur. 😁
lol at Godzilla
pics or it didn't happen :-)
Well, you asked for it...
https://cdn.historycollection.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hitler-posing-in-front-of-the-eiffel-tower.-business-insider.jpg
I thought you said you were with your old man in Tokyo and not with GrandPa in Paris...lol
Ohh, I've been mistaken to be Gramps too many times!
You can use Nostr.build to upload images
https://image.nostr.build/49cf440c7b14c3c338725abb5b4e3d808e896c41ee9ff7feef83b647a3311113.jpg
Thank you for sharing! My wife is Japanese n I love reading stuff about Japan!