We managed to meet up with Jan yesterday, a friend I met in Austria who lives here in Tokyo, and he was kind enough to take us around town. That was after we found an internet cafe in the Shibuya district and figured out how to call him on a pay phone. We saw a good amount of the city: lunch in the Tsukiji fish market, dropped by for a walk through a park near the edge of town, to a temple, went back to Shibuya and to Harajuku for dinner at Fujimama's. The final stop of the night was the Park Hyatt in the Shinjuku district.
Even though the drink we had at the hotel was a little pricey with the cover charge, it was well worth it. The views of the city from the bar (apparently from the movie Lost in Translation) were amazing. It seems that Tokyo goes on and on in all directions... There must have been a million red blinking lights on top of the skyscrapers.
Our hotel is nice, and relatively cheap I think. We're shooting to stay at a more traditional Ryokan when we get to Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train tomorrow. Any where that is cheap and clean will work though I think.
Oh... And the highlight of today, for me at least, was the Yodobashi Camera (click for Japanese) store in Shinjuku today. They have every piece of camera gear that you could ever want... Unfortunately, I only wanted to buy a bag but could have spent hours just poking around. Lunch at a small noddle stand in an alley was a really great experience too. I later found out that it made me a little sick, ha.
Pictures if you're interested...
Check the pictures of Emilie being bald too if you haven't seen them.
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