At the world’s largest city: Tokyo.

I arrived to Tokyo in the night of September 6th on an S7 airlines low-cost flight from the city of Irkutsk, Russia.
The first thing you have to deal with in Tokyo is the incredibly complicated railway system. They don’t have fixed charges, so you basically pay per distance basis and also depending on what train line you are riding, this is why paying one way tickets is not recommendable at all, instead you can buy a pre-paid card that you just refill and the card will make all the calculations for you based on where you used it, I learned this on my last day :). So took me a while to figure out the way to my hostel but finally arrived, the place was ok but on the north-east side, at least 40 minutes away from the center by train.
Tokyo is so incredibly big that some days I walked for about 5 hours almost non-stop and still made little progress when looking at the map. I spent my time mostly walking the different famous neighborhoods and also enjoying getting lost on some other not so famous. My phone charger and a local SIM card really saved my life many times.
One day I woke up early and went to the city of Kamakura, a touristic place with temples and beach, I found there a shop where I could read “Gallery and Piano”. I end up meeting a very nice old lady who I understood she used to be a concertist and loved the music of Piazzolla, so I played for her on her very nice Yamaha grand. Afterwards I kept taking trains to the south until I realized I was 3.5 hours away from home in the city of Shizuoka, so I decided to stay there and go back to Tokyo on the following day.
I also had the chance to know Shizuko, who let me rehearse for 3 hours on a Yamaha concert piano at a rehearsal studio in Tokyo. It was very nice having the opportunity to play in such a good piano after so much time dealing with whatever was available.
One of the big things in Japan is their food, and although the city is generally expensive, food isn’t, so after some sashimi, I’m ready to keep traveling.