Tokyo Tochaku

After a depressing last week in London and a tearful goodbye with Toby things finally started to clear up after a) was upgraded to "executive class"at Heathrow and spent night in seat/bed convertible thingy chatting to rather attractive stewards and having four course menus at 10`000 feet, b) bumped into Mikawa Kenji at the foreign exchange in Narita airport (he is a very well knowndrag perfomer/celebrity TV person) and he gave me adirty look before sashaying past in a billowing coat, and c) I spent my first night in Tokyo getting utterly sloshed in Shinjuku nichome which happens to be just across the street from my hotel (I say incidentially because you never can tell as addresses are completely random. nichome literallymeans second block of Shinjuku, but the hotel is in the fifth block...whatever) and talked to random people(drinking does help the Japanese to loosen up a great deal, almost to a fault I must say though).So after affirming myself that there is enough fun to be had for at least a year I set out to start looking for flats....