Stairs, Stairs And More Stairs

A friend is flying off to Japan for a 10-day holiday with her siblings today. Apart from helping her out with the Tokyo itinerary and dumping all sorts of brochures for her to read, I gave her one piece of advice as she intended to use the vast, highly efficient train system to get around. Be prepared to climb a lot of stairs in Japan. That, and reminding her to collect all those free tissue packets.

While there were escalators and elevators in bigger stations, smaller stations just have those concrete stairs for you to climb up and down. Just looking at all those stairs, especially the narrow ones was enough to make one dizzy! LOL

Make sure your thigh muscle can stand climbing all those stairs, ya. And good upper body strength too, if you need to carry your child (maybe plus a stroller) up, like I did sometimes!

It may not be much of a problem without luggage, but imagine lugging around heavy bags up all those flights of stairs. It sure wasn't something to look forward to, climbing up stairs after getting off from a train from a particularly tiring day of sightseeing. Ugh...

Anyway, people seems to be heading off to Japan left right centre over here. Apart from this friend, a colleague will be heading off in Feb next year. One is thinking to go. One is in Japan as I write this. And they all blame me for their trip. LOL If it's true, then I make a good (albeit FOC) ambassador for Japan tourism, no? *^-^*