K & A’s Adventures in Japan…
After much contemplation, I’ve decided that doing it in parts is just going to get tedious and I’ll have to keep up with the counting and quite frankly, it’s not worth that sort of effort.
So, here are the missing two days from Tokyo plus the return to Nagoya, which in itself was an adventure.
On the 13th, we decided to visit Asakusa and Ginza. It was boiling hot out, so even though Asakusa was really nice, it was not nice feeling gross and sweaty. We had some ice to cool down and it felt like the best thing ever. Naturally we visited Sensouji, and then did a bit of looking around at all the different stalls. Kat ended up buying a really cute towel, and the older gentleman was so cute. He was also a very quick wrapper. To add to the coolness, we had gelato.
After that, we headed off to Ginza where we did mostly window shopping. We stopped into a few stores to browse, and although there were a million and one things we’d have loved to have, most of them aren’t exactly on the list of things we need and can afford, haha. We saw this moving cabaret shop which had different ‘scenes’ where you can put a token in and they move. They were mostly made of wood and metal… it’s hard to explain, but it was cool.
We met up with Kimkim for dinner, and headed out to this little diner for burgers. Unfortunately we were really late (we got there about 10pm and last order was at 10:30pm) and they were sold out of burgers. We had sandwhiches instead, which were just as good. AND I HAD ROOT BEER. It’s hard to find Root Beer in Japan so I was ridiculously exited.
We stayed up pretty late that night watching random things online, but all in all had a good time.
The fourteenth, which was day three of Tokyo, was reserved for Roppongi Hills, after much debate. We wanted to see a nice overview of the city, and the Mori tower had an outstanding view.They also had the ‘Sky Aquarium III’ which was just… amazing. It was basically like art with marine life. There’s no other way to describe it, and there are tons of photos in the photo gallery of it (just go to the Tokyo gallery).
Also in the Mori tower was an Ai Wei Wei exhibit. The art there was… interesting. It’s that kind of art that you don’t really get. We stopped in and watched this extremely bizarre and disturbing movie (well, the latter half of it). It’s like one of those artsy, ‘tortured-soul’ films, that only a certain type of person ‘gets’. We’re not sure if we should be confused, scarred, offended… it was just weird. The footage we saw was this guy with something like a twinkie in his mouth as he talked, and he was connected to what looked like tin foil and silver tubing. The tubing was connected to this wall, where you could see someone’s head, and they kept screaming and banging on the wall. The twinkie-man was also drooling.
Yeah.
From the Mori tower, we headed back to Shibuya to catch the bus to get back to Kim’s and meet him there. Oddly enough, we ended up on the same bus, haha. My future husband was not working at the conbini on our way by. It was sad. I never got to see him again.
Next on the menu was yakiniku, which we had to wait ten minutes to get into. But, the food was good and the menu had the BEST PHRASE EVER: “Yakiniku makes you happy. It’s magical”.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Then after much food, we went to karaoke. Yayyy. We initially planned to be there for three hours, but ended up extending a few times. We sang a lot. We also learned that Kat and I can actually rap — decently. Who knew. We were there until around 3:45am, and finally decided to call it night. On the way home, we stopped by McDonalds, because apparently we felt like we needed that at 4:00am.
Saturday… it was hard to wake up. But we had to catch the shinkansen to head back to Nagoya at 12:40. We left Kim’s place at 11:50… and let’s just say, we cut it really close. Long story short, after walking and the subway (with a transfer) we got through the wicket for the shinkansen at 12:37pm. That was just through the wicket. We still had to find the right platform, and get up the stairs. We made it on that train just in time. It was quite the little adventure because we both honestly thought that we just might not make it.
The ride back to Nagoya was nice, cool and relaxing. I fell asleep. Kat read. And after getting back we prepared for the live, which I already wrote about.
And that concludes our days in Tokyo, haha.
We took lots of photos which I’ve uploaded into the gallery: http://www.pink-spider.net/index.php/tokyo/
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