Category: Travel

Trip to Izu

Posted by – July 29, 2006

It’s a very occasional opportunity to attend the interesting travel with James’ team.
Here I would also like to introduce a very humor person James who is Chinese and has already living in Japan for many years. He just joined Morgan Stanley for a few months.
He is our guide because of his fluent Japanese.
Izu Located South-West of Tokyo and right South of Mount Fuji, Noted for its beautiful coastal scenery and hotspring resorts, it is popular with Tokyoites on weekends and national holidays. We take the shinkansen from Tokyo (Shinagawa) to Mishima and rent a Toyota to start our izu trip.
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© Zhu Xinquan. The car we rent
One unfortunate thing is the road inside the mountain is too winding and I suffered a lot head sickness when Andy and James drove the car.
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© Zhu Xinquan Look at these terrible roads in the mountain
Finally I recovered and saw the sea and have a hotspring in Atami. But I still think that one day is too short for Izu trip. We just hurry away from one place to another and have no enough time to go around in very place.2~3 days maybe a good trip time.
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© Zhu Xinquan James’ team and me
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© Zhu Xinquan The izu sea
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© Zhu Xinquan
To be continued…

Tokyo Impression

Posted by – July 29, 2006

After spent a couple of days in Tokyo, I find many interesting thins here:
The whole city is very clean.
People don’t talk much in the public places such as in the subways.
People don’t eat things in the way to company. As my first several days in Tokyo due to the late for work in the morning, I ate some bread on the train on the way to work. Many people around me looked me very strangely. After many days I realize the problem.
All the people related serving industry is very very polite to customers. For example, the waiters and sales people in the super market.
People have a custom to keep the order of everything. You cannot see anyone jump the queue.
You can see pigeons everywhere even in the downtown. If a pigeon is on the middle of the road, people always stop the car just like there is a person.
Life quality is higher than Shanghai and also many things are more expensive than Shanghai.
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© Zhu Xinquan. The place where I live in Tokyo
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© Zhu Xinquan. Goods are more expensive than Shanghai
to be continued…

Ebisu Garden Place and Morgan Stanley

Posted by – July 29, 2006

Morgan Stanley’s Tokyo office is in the Ebisu Garden Place. It’s a quite very good place, no crowd people just like city within the city. It consist a large array of restaurans and shops and some western style buildings. And the free lift to the top of the Garden Place Tower offers one of the better scenic views of Tokyo. It is connected with the JR Yamanote Line Ebisu station by the well marked “Yebisu Skywalk” on which I walk everyday.
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© Zhu Xinquan. Morgan Stanley’s Tokyo office in Ebisu Garden Place
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© Zhu Xinquan. Morgan Stanley Logo and me
To be continued…

Trip to Tokyo

Posted by – June 25, 2006

By waiting for 13 days, I finally got the Japan visa. It’s the first time for me to go abroad, of course, first time to Japan. I will stay at Tokyo for about 3 months and take the training class hold by the Tokyo branch of my company.In the old days, when there is trip for me on the next day, I will be too excited to get sleep at night. I still can remember these excited nights in the university. This time I was so peaceful and slept pretty well last time. I don’t know why. Anyway, it’s good for me to bring with a great deal of energy to my first Japan trip. (update the picture I’ve taken)

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