Tokyo - The Last Supper

We were moving out of Kozue's apartment because she was leaving to visit family. So we packed up & looked for a capsule hotel that we could stay in for the night and said our goodbyes and walked to the train station. We eventually found our capsule hotel. I was very excited as I thought I missed my chance to stay in one when we decided not to go to Osaka. Capsule hotels are hotels that don't require a booking. Your hotel room is a small capsule with just enough room for a bed and a small television. We got a locker to put our bags in and went out for lunch. We saw a Freshness burger so we had lunch there.

We went back to Yoyogi Park to see if the Rockabilly Dancers were there. Apparently they are there on Sundays. Not every Sunday but most. I really wanted to see them but unfortunately, maybe because it was so soon after New Years, they didn't gather on this Sunday. After the park, we went to Kabukicho, the "entertainment" district of Tokyo. We went to an arcade. It was so noisy and it was obvious that this was where teenage kids came to hang out and it was evident some of them spent too much time there. One guy was on one of those dancing arcade games and he was almost break dancing, he was that good on it. We didn't spend too much time in there.

We went back to Shibuya. I saw the statue of Hachiko the dog, who waited outside the station everyday for his owner to come home from work and when his owner died of a haemorrhage, the dog kept going to the station everyday for 9 years after.

We went to Burger King for lunch as Philip only gets to eat in Burger King when he is in Tokyo. He had a few Dr Pepper too for the same reason. We noticed probably the best badly translated pubic sign in Burger King which I assume was meant to tell customers that the toilets were for paying customers only but said "We are not welcome only the toilet user." Brilliant.

While walking around the city, one of the places we went to was Hotel Hill, an area full of Love Hotels (hotels where the room can be rented for a few hours at a time) or as Eric called it, Hooker Hill. There was nothing up there anyway. We went back to the hotel to regroup and just lay down for a bit after walking all day.

We went out again for dinner for an epic Japanese meal. It was amazing! Eric and Philip quizzed me on what I thought about Japan and asked a variation of questions about my time here. After dinner, we went to  Dubliners pub and met with a few of Philip and Kay's friends and had a few drinks.

Back in the hotel, we just went straight to bed as there were other people sleeping in our corridor. The air conditioner was on to a hot setting and it was making the air extremely dry, I knew I would wake up with severe cotton mouth. I watched some tv and fell asleep.