A wall of reporters outside the office today. There’s probably a hundred people out there. Someone tried to leave the building just before I took the photo, and was instantly mobbed by a throng of people.
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Tianjin Station
Taken on the Tianjin train station platform just after arrival from Beijing on the high-speed rail line. The train on the right is the one I took.
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Winter World
A mid-March snowstorm covered the Beijing Botanical Garden in white.
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Public Transportation in Japan
Japan has the most developed and complex public transport systems I have ever seen, even more sophisticated than Hong Kong, New York, or Seoul. Unfortunately, despite the sophistication, the lines are not very well integrated, with multiple transport networks in each city, each with confusing mutually incompatible fare systems.
Shown in the picture in the background is the Japan Rail (JR) timetable flipped to the page with the Shinkansen schedules and the Tokyo subwap map (yikes!). Overlaid on top are the Tokyo and Kyoto subway passes and the Japan Rail Pass which allowed us (almost) unlimited rides on the respective lines during our trip.
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Exit Row
I asked the cute check-in counter lady for a window seat on my SFO-NRT flight, and she gave me a windowless exit row seat instead. This was my first time sitting in an exit row. I didn’t really miss out on the view, as it was raining hard outside in Narita, but I did get ample leg room and a spot opposite where the flight attendent was sitting.
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