Archive for May 2008

Tokyo

May 9, 2008 :: Ramblings, Business Trips :: No Comments

Its 7am and this is my final morning in Tokyo…. I’m in Tokyo by the way!

Went on a nice early morning walk around Imperial Palace. Literally. All the way around, outside, around the moat. Its too early and its closed!

I’ve actually been up all night because I want back in to UK time as best I can and try to get some sleep on the plane. Very annoyingly I’ve come all this way and been so busy I have seen nothing of the place. Did go out for a meal last night in a very nice restaurant overlooking the whole city, other than that my only other excursion involved extreme Vodka, I can recall nothing.

So, from what little I have seen these are my conclusions!

Japanese are polite to the extreme - wearing masks when they are ill so not to spread disease. My drunken Ukrainian friend Max even grabbed a police officer and shook him asking for directions back to our hotel. Somehow there we no repercussions from this.

It really is a couple of years ahead technology wise. Some sites are accessed more via mobile than web.

Its expensive!

If I were a lot less busy I would probably even investigate business out here. The population is 140m, with very high internet and phone usage… that has to be a a good starting point. Now you just have the simple problem of deciding what the business is and what the competition and market is like for that now. There is also a huge cultural difference that has to be understood.

7.10 am now, time for breakfast and check out.