Warm Tea on a Cold November Day on a Yamanote Line Platform

Published on November 20, 2006 By momijiki In Blogging

I wish I had a picture of this. I don't.

Sunday was colder than it has been for a while. A warm jacket and a scarf made it okay. But my husband gave me a sip of the drink he'd bought from the vending machine on the Yamanote Line platform in Gotanda.

Drinking the warm green tea changed the focus of the energy. From standing in the cold, waiting for a train, I suddenly began to enjoy the activity swirling around me on a rainy autumn day in Tokyo.

Comments

foreverserenity

on Nov 21, 2006

This sounds nice! Are you on a mountain, if so how high?!

momijiki

on Nov 22, 2006

It was a really nice moment. At that time, I told my husband about it and he just looked at me really baffled. He is a "grass is greener" kind of guy and he was freezing. Later that day, he told me that he could kind of understand that feeling. He was riding his bike home and it was raining, but he finally had the experience of really being in a moment. MAJOR progress for him.

I love living here. It can be way crowded and frustrating, but I've never been in a place that can offer so many reflective moments amid the bustle of humanity.

Although the name "Yamanote" has the word mountain in it ("yama") it's the name of a road a of a train line the circles around inner Tokyo. We were standing on a train platform having what I call a "Tokyo moment." There are probably other Yamanote places and things in Japan, though.

BTW, thanks for reading my blog!

foreverserenity

on Nov 22, 2006

He is a "grass is greener" kind of guy and he was freezing. Later that day, he told me that he could kind of understand that feeling. He was riding his bike home and it was raining, but he finally had the experience of really being in a moment. MAJOR progress for him.

Wow, progress indeed!

Although the name "Yamanote" has the word mountain in it ("yama") it's the name of a road a of a train line the circles around inner Tokyo. We were standing on a train platform having what I call a "Tokyo moment

Awwwww.....I realise it had something to do with a train station but thought it was one of those upper level places on a mountain top!

BTW, thanks for reading my blog!

U R welcome! I enjoy your blogs a lot! Keep on bloggin!

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