AFI Tour Blog: Japan Part Two

AFI guitarist Jade Puget checks in from the road as the band prepare to leave Japan.

Posted Wednesday, 24 February 2010 by AFI in

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Incongruous snow on the streets of Tokyo. I associate that city with sticky heat, not frostbitten fingers.

We took the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo. In between train cars you have the option of the Western bathroom or the 'Japanese-style' bathroom. If you've ever toured certain places in Europe, you'll be familiar with this. The Western bathroom is the familiar urinal and the Japanese-style consists of a sort of trough in the ground with foot-sized patches of griptape on either side. Strange to our sensibilities but, in reality, more efficient.

The Japanese fans were great, they also have an uncanny knack for knowing where you're going to be at all times, which hotel, which trainstation, which airport gate. They would make amazing tour managers. I'm also under the impression that they still buy CDs there, I guess they've yet to fully slide into the Dark Ages of Music.

An hour and a half (!) sojourn to Narita International Airport and we're off to parts unknown. Arigato gozaimasu, Nippon.

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