My Life in Japan

Hello! Or konichiwa as it’s said here in Japan. My name is Hachiko and I’m from Japan. I live in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, in the Shinjuku Ward, where there are gigantic neon signs and TV’s on the buildings – some buildings are over 55 stories! I live in an apartment, where most people live in the Shinjuku district, in a 31 story building. Tokyo is classified as a mega-city, holding about 30 million residents! I live with my father and my sister; my father is the manager of a huge business. My mother is separated from my father and lives in the Taitō Ward in the Uneo district, a fair while away from me and she works with the cherry blossom trees which are common in the district. I am often taken care of by my older sister, who is 19, as my father is nearly always at work. My family and I believe in the religion Shinto, an ancient Japanese religion, and is most familiar here in Japan. Shinto shrines are used to worship ‘kami’, the spirits and gods of the world.

This is the Shinjuku ward at street level, look at

all the signs and buildings!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sunset_over_Shinjuku.jpg