A night riding experience in Tokyo city

I was yearning for a trip around Tokyo to have the experience of a night view of Tokyo city. The night view of Tokyo shown in many websites is eye catching. With many skyscrapers illuminated with colorful lights, Tokyo city is in competition with the mysteriously charming J-girls.

My wishes came true yesterday when one of my senior at office, Kawano-san invited us to have that experience of driving around Tokyo city in his car. Along with friends, Ienaka-san and Mustain-san we planned for a trip to Tokyo city from Funabashi.

Kawano-san’s car is spacious and equipped with all modern controlling systems like car navigation system. The Japanese make car he brought five years back still looked new. The care Japanese people takes to their automobiles is noticeable. Kawano-san drove the car from Funabashi towards Tokyo. The car navigation system automatically tells which roads have high traffic and even the nearest Ramen shops and restaurants!

We passed near to the Tokyo Tower which was literally looked like a tower of lights in the night. The sight of Tokyo Tower is amazing in the night with illumination. During the ride, I could hear many old and new trends in Japanese culture from Ienaka-san and Kawano-san. New generation Japanese people are generally flexible to other cultures and food habits. The biggest barrier between the Japanese people and foreigners in Japan is the language.

Kawano-san and Ienaka-san are two interesting personalities in the office. Kawano-san is source of many information on optical fibers and cables whom I used to approach and talk to clear my doubts. The full name is Masahiro Kawano, he had travelled a lot as part of his profession. A highly technically integrated and matured personality, Kawano-san still could keep his simplicity.

Ienaka-san is one of the two persons in the office, whose voice will still there in my ears even after I go back to India. Ienaka-san has very delightful personality, with whom we will never get bored. Ienaka-san had also travelled a lot, meeting people at different countries dealing with customers at technical meetings and symposiums. Ienaka-san is highly technical and knowledgeable personality who keeps his simplicity together.

This unique nature of Japanese people – simplicity even at the high levels of personal achievements makes them different from other high-ego societies.

I was learning more about Tokyo and Japanese culture as Kawano-san’s car passed through busy Tokyo streets. We crossed the Rainbow Bridge. The scene of the illuminated colorful boats passing through the river when the car crossed the bride was amazing!

When we reached at Kiba, we decided to dine at an Indian restaurant. Cooked and served in traditional Indian styles, the dishes were delicious and we enjoyed the food. The restaurant was not known to me till yesterday. I was aware of Namaste India restaurant near to our office and ‘One Coin’ restaurant at Toyocho, which is around 10 minutes walk from the office. This new restaurant is in between the two exits of Kiba Railway station.

After dinner, Kawano-san set the car navigation system to Komatsugawa Park to drop me at my apartment. It was night 9:45 by the time we reached at Komatsugawa Park.

Kawano-san gave a good and different experience to all of us.