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A log of the beginning of my time in Japan

Monday, July 18, 2005

Internet cafe


Internet cafes here are freaking cool. Expensive, but cool. While waiting for Madoka to get off work I spent an hour in the cheapest booth I could find where I could smoke. I could only snap a couple photos for fear of disturbing the other occupants. The whole place is kept very dark. Here's a picture of the hallway. My booth was the last on the left.



My booth contained a PC, a television, and a dvd player. It cost about five dollars an hour during the daytime. After midnight though, you can rent a booth for six hours for about nine dollars. So, if you miss the last train home you can spend the night in an internet cafe. The more expensive booths contain computers high specced enough to run Lineage II, a PS2 and a TV and dvd player. The price of your booth includes the run of shelves and shelves of manga, dvds, PS2 games and free run at the drink bar. You can get hot tea/coffee, iced tea/coffee and fruit juices. Didn't see any soda, but I'm sure some places have them.

To finish off here are some screenshots from the computer I was using.


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