Waking up realising your in another is as daughting the.... uh... 4th time then your first. This is japan however and when you ask for your towel for a how're and are given baby clothes you ponder....
WTF.
Do japanese people use really small towels in general?
Is this a joke to play on some westerner or am I just a dumbass and didn't figure it out that it was a wash cloth more then a towel... thank god they gave me 2 to dry my humungus body of before I froze.
Anyhow!
Lovely none the less to shower in some hot japan goodness... water I mean.
So you shower up nice and early. Plan part of your day and head to the metro to realise that it's peak time and you know, 1 million japanese are traveling on public transport....
Tight squeeze is and understatement.
Ha, enjoyable. And they really do say nothing on the train. But like home. Thing is they actually move down the train to make room and majority of them get of the train for others unlike some (westerners) stand in the fucking door way while you squeeze past inch by inch before, oh, the door closes and you miss your stop!
Not here!
They are educated in transport edikit to pression making even a tight sardined train ride enjoyable.
I love it, altough I couldn't live it again.
Besides getting lost through beautiful park and suburban street I've had a pleasant stroll to the studio ghibli mueseum.
The museum itself... I say could have been a little more bigger with its display. But showed great show rooms or art and culture towards the films and it's development. Rooms dedicated to the creators of the franchise and others to there films. One room was the large cat from totoro where 'kids' could play on... oh how I wanted to be a child again...
All in all fun and a good expereince.
Worth the long train ride and epect amount if civilian walls to over come.
Unfortunately no photos inside but did however scored some from the outside.
So after the adventure that was studio ghibli I made my way back to the JR train and headed to Shinjuku, the electronic area where I played a game called wingdum....shoot them... something.
Anyways i had 2 guns that could join together to shoot the ahit out of everything. Sadly i only played the tutorial to very loud techno music and failed in that... games are not my thing no more.
So then I ventured to the tokyo government building were you can go to the 45 floor free of charge for a lovely view of Tokyo city.... it's huge!
The sun unfortunately was blocking the view of Mt fuji so hopefully next time I will get a shot of the glorious mountain.
From there I went and searched through electronic goods and came across a camera place that bought 2 of my camera lens in order for me to buy an 9 - 18mm wide at half the price back home.
Omg.. best decision ever!
No my photos have made much more of a difference.
So once again I headed of as I was about to meet a helpx friend that was staying in Tokyo also. We met at Uneo station and straight away decided to get booze and drink in the park and chat about life. So good speaking English when you have been by yourself in a forgiven country!
Some time had passed when talking and strolling through the park when the booze had got to us that we decided to try and make friends... after meeting some cool kids and such we headed to Uneo markets. Massive market streets are everywhere in Tokyo lining the roads back and forth. We then decided to attend the pokies. . Unfortunately not to sure what there called in Japanese, maybe pintcho.
So just imagine, yes, another very loud venue where people listen and watch crazy light shows and bet on silly slot machines. We won 2 coke cans and some little gold bars. Was quite weird. But an experience yes! By now we where hungry and decided to find a place to eat so we saw a cheap upstairs place and made ourself comfortable. Beef stew, kombu and tofu and edame with 8 sewers of interesting chicken meats. Cartilage and hearts where 2. The rest quite plan but delicious!
From here we made more friends.. well Arianna did. I just tried to do some translating. Ha! This is where it gets interesting. We then ask if we can hang with them so we then go on a mission to the next place for more drinks and food.
Beer, mackerel, sardines, tofu, saki.. Omg. We were treated like kings. They we so nice and please take to us as we were to them. We exchanged in a lot of conversation even if it was broken. And laughed our asses of.
By now it was at least 1, they friends left and we decided to talk to the people next to us and when they left talked to the people on the other side was such a good time.
By now where so drunk and finding a way home was not going to be easy. Luckily we calculated that we were both not far from our residence. I had a long street to walk down and Arianna also in the opposite.
Power walked home at like 3 in the morning. Safe, crashed straight out. Suffered so bad in the morning I had to get more sleep in order not to die!!
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