We made it to Tokyo.  After two weeks of insane and overwhelming departure from Vietnam, followed by an epic and intense visit to Bangkok – we’re finally in Japan.

The city is amazing and overwhelming, but in entirely different ways from Vietnam.  We’ve already managed to find our way around the local transit system, explore a few areas, get housing sorted out and unpack into our rooms.  This is a feat that took almost a month and a half in Vietnam.  We’ve got a couple of advantages here in that we were able to do a lot more research and prep online, and I’ve got some previous knowledge, but the real challenge here still lies ahead.  Its quickly becoming very clear to us that the biggest challenge with living in Japan is going to be financial.  There are amazing things to eat, see, and do everywhere but they are all incredibly expensive.  The sooner we can find work the sooner we can really start to see what the city has to offer.

Tomorrow we’ll start some initial searching and see where it takes us.  Hopefully straight to high paying jobs with flexible hours, but at this point I think we’ll settle for paying jobs.