Okay, so here's the thing; Japan is awesome. Also, we spent three weeks here about a year and a half ago, in the same hotel, so we are pretty familiar with the neighborhood. There are a few new, incredibly awesome toy/manga stores, but it all looks the same as last time. The Japanese like to keep their toys, manga, video games and porn close together. We found a lot of new Totoro displays, so that means I have to buy Totoro stuff. We are going to wait to buy stuff until the last week, so we won't have to lug a ton of crap around.
So, today, we ate breakfast at Dennys - I had mackerel, pickled vegetables, a chilled tofu salad, miso and rice. Sandy had salmon, natto, miso and rice. It was a fairly standard Japanese Denny's breakfast. Afterwards we stopped at a cute coffee shop - that's ice cream on top, not whipped cream...
We walked to Ueno, to my favorite toy store, and since we agreed to buy stuff until the last week IT WAS TORTURE! We walked through Okachimachi, a busy little shopping row, and all over Akiba. Again, we weren't buying stuff yet, so we just looked. We went into a few manga shops, some action figure stores, and a few arcades. It is Mother's Day (called haha no hi in Japan) and a Sunday, so a lot of stores were closed.
We walked through Donki-yote, which is like a mix of Ross, Big Lots and Uwajimaya, with video arcades and a maid cafe on the top floor. They sell food, clothes, toys, electronics, music(all American pop), games, porn, kitchen stuff... they really sell just about everything. I set an alarm off on something I was looking at and we ran away. Then we ate delicious takoyaki!(And I wanted Mike Tanner to be there with us... so I dedicated a takoyaki to him.) Eventually, we went back to our hotel and crashed; not really our intention, but we are severely jetlagged. Tomorrow we have a long train ride up to Aomori, in the Aomori Prefecture. Hopefully I'll have an internet connection up there so I can keep on posting updates. Sorry for the lack of pictures and video right now, but believe me, there will be plenty soon enough.
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