Two weeks ago, I was in Goa for my exams. After that my exams I spent two days with my family since I was coming to Japan as part of testing and integration of the product which we are developing there. My primary task is to integrate and test the echo-cardiac application developed for the new Ultra Sound Machine of Toshiba Medical Systems Japan.

I started from there Friday night from the Trivandrum International Airport. I hadn’t any friends from my company (usually people are coming here as batch of 3-4). It was my first foreign trip and I enjoyed a lot even I’m a bit tensed.

From the Trivandrum Airport, I got a company his name is Kiran working at US Technology and Resources. Kiran and his friend was going to U.S.

After 4 hours of Journey, I reached Singapore Changi Airport. It’s really a nice place to see. Lot of shopping places, restaurants beautiful sceneries… I visited both of the terminal of the airport. They have Sky Train to reach one terminal to another. Mean while I had a long talk with my friend Ajish from the free public phones available there. Ajish has resigned from nest quite a sometimes back before and now working for Siemens, Singapore.

The Boeing flight of Star Alliance taken off from there at sharp 9.40 AM (Singapore time). The service in the flight was comfortable and slept for sometime since I could not sleep for previous day. After that I just watched the Hindi Movie gangster from the small TV available for each passengers. When we were flying over Taipei, it was something like watching earth using Google Earth

I reached Tokyo, Narita Airport by 5.00 PM (JST). An agent was there to pick me from airport. She helped me to exchange the US$ I had and also helped me to take Tokyo city. The evening seemed like night in whole Japan. It’s winter time here. When I reached Tokyo the temperature was 2 degree at that time.

NeST engineers are residing the rented apartments at Kyoto, Nasu Shiobara. From the Tokyo I have taken a ticket for Shinkansen (Bullet Train) to Nasu Shiobara. It was relatively fast and I reached Nasu within 1 hr (150 KM from Tokyo). Our senior manager Sunil came at railway station to pick me.

I hadn’t taken the winter coat. So it was a real encounter with Japan’s weather.

Today morning I went out with Anup (my room mate) to do the purchases for the week. We went to a Supermarket names ‘Shiobaraya’ to get the fruits vegitables, fish etc for the week.

Japan is really costly when comparing to India. For a packet of biscuit we have to pay nearly 100 INR. The comparison with INR will always end up in tears. So I’m not doing it anymore. I have brought one tiffin box and winter coat from here.

The people here are very polite and also in the streets they are keeping the rules. Communication is a problem here. Most of the Japanese haven’t the basics of English. It’s very difficult to talk with the in English and unfortunately I don’t know Japanese. I have to learn something before I’m leaving from here.

Here bicycle using for travel to short distances. It’s raining here from morning . I forgot to buy an umbrella . I have reach office by 8.15 AM. Toshiba have the free Transportation for the employees and for others working for them.

I’ll give the updates tomorrow.