After a few minutes of existential crisis I came back to the reception and explained in the most simple English possible that I am an architect and I need good natural light for my hand drawings (I doubt they would understand if I said it was for my mental health), and unexpectedly they moved me into a corner room on the same floor without much resistance - still pretty shabby, very dusty but with two windows and a street view, and oh, it is a bit wider, now there is even enough space for a yoga mat on the floor! As soon as the door closed I realized that I was far too sleepy to do anything productive and just struggled to stay awake by talking on the phone until 20:30 to make my jetlag a bit easier to deal with tomorrow.
It looks pretty okay if you don’t switch on the ceiling light and don’t look closely at the furniture and the carpet. I guess they fired most of their cleaning staff during corona crisis because it seems there was no wet cleaning done for many months in a row.
Quarantine Day 1
Yesterday I wrote way too much, I know most of you didn’t read it all so today I’ll keep it short (also because nothing really happened, but you can go back and read about the previous day if you have time). I did a very thorough dust cleaning in my room and had the food I brought from Russia for breakfast. The university and the tourist agency wrote me that I can’t leave the hotel building and I’m supposed to get my food in a convenience store on the ground floor or use uber eats, but both options are very limited if you want to eat healthy food and avoid meat. So I started doubting and googled that Japan actually doesn’t have any penalties for leaving your house during post-arrival self-isolation, people are allowed to buy food and the only real rule is not to use public transport. I gathered my courage and decided to test if going out of the hotel would get me in any trouble. Guess what - it haven’t (yet)! Bought some nice sushi and was happy to assert my (partial) freedom.
Yesterday I wrote way too much, I know most of you didn’t read it all so today I’ll keep it short (also because nothing really happened, but you can go back and read about the previous day if you have time). I did a very thorough dust cleaning in my room and had the food I brought from Russia for breakfast. The university and the tourist agency wrote me that I can’t leave the hotel building and I’m supposed to get my food in a convenience store on the ground floor or use uber eats, but both options are very limited if you want to eat healthy food and avoid meat. So I started doubting and googled that Japan actually doesn’t have any penalties for leaving your house during post-arrival self-isolation, people are allowed to buy food and the only real rule is not to use public transport. I gathered my courage and decided to test if going out of the hotel would get me in any trouble. Guess what - it haven’t (yet)! Bought some nice sushi and was happy to assert my (partial) freedom.