Saturday, 14 April 2007

Muslims in Japan..

Its great to see muslims all around u.

To my surprise, my lodge is full with muslims. We are alot! This is a great thing.

I have met many more muslims yesterday, Friday, when I went to pray AlJum3a prayer in the university (my university).

Japanese people actually respect muslims alot. & they understand that they have strict rules regarding eating & praying.

My professor was too kind to tell me that we have a small mosque for me to pray 5 times in the lab if I want. Great. People in shops will tell you if this is Haram or not. In Jordan, people in shops would do ANYTHING just to make you buy. Here, Honesty is before anything, even if you dont buy from him.

Japan is the land of Islam but without Islam.

Shibuya




Shibuya is a shopping place in tokyo that is used for hanging out. You find many young people in there having fun. Its a great place actually.

I can reach shibuya only in 3min by train. Great!

You can notice how organized the japanese people are, when u see them waiting for the traffic light to be green just like in this video, taken from www.d1g.com

My room, Japanese style...



This is why Tokyo is crowded..

Japanese style rooms are very very small. But they make use of every inch available. As u can see in the pics, to take a shower I have to move the sink 90 degrees to the right to have space!

The bed is folded to save space also. Its pretty interesting actually!!

Actually Japanese know how to use the space-time dimensions to the maximum. Amazing!!

Akihabara..



It makes the perfect sense to start with this word, AKIHABARA...

Akihabara is the most famous area in Tokyo outside Japan. Its the place with the latest technology all available. I couldnt wait to visit akihabara. I arrived Japan, 2 days later, I was walking above the streets of dreams, streets of Akihabra.

Japan..

Hello everybody,

I am talking to u now from tokyo..

Ill post pics & information about tokyo as much as my time allows me. Just stay tuned.

Please post ur comments if u like/dislike what u see.