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Lost in a department store...
By popular demand, we started our adventure today by visiting one of the Muji stores in Tokyo. Muji has some similarities to Ikea in that the design of the items they sell is very simple yet clever (they also sell clothing). Had a great time looking around and seeing some really cool things. The highlight of the store however is the complete house …
Gwen Stefani wasn't wrong.
We saw the Hachiko statue today outside the Shibuy station. Pretty fantastic.
Went to the Starbucks across the street. While waiting in line, I picked up a very delicate macron and accidentally squished it. So we enjoyed a (crumbly) raspberry macron with iced black tea (only comes in Tall size!).
Walked along Yoyogi park after …
A sense of Japanese community.
Accompanied by a new friend (from Finland!), Kreetta, we were headed out to grab some dinner in the local area tonight and no sooner did we step out the back door of the hotel than we were in the middle of a small community festival! There were many children running around and food vendors serving freshly made yakisoba, yakitori, cotton candy, …
The Love Hill and Animal Entrails
... mixture which he said was tongue. We obviously had to eat what was put in front of us so as to not offend our new friend who was trying very hard to welcome us. So, we chowed down on the meat and tried to eat around some of the gross looking bits. The old man left and we then found out that it wasn't tongue, but beef gristle. Not much better than tongue and I don't know that I feel better or worse that I ate gristle rather than tongue.
We left the restaurant and headed towards ...
The Homestretch
... outside!) The store had pretty much the same stock as the Sanrio Store in Ginza, so we didn’t buy anything except for a 'Thank You’ card to take to the izakaya that night. After looking around Shinjuku for a while longer, we started walking to Yotsuya to visit the izakaya and take advantage of the ‘1000 yen, 100 drinks, 100 minutes’ offer again! When we arrived we gave Iwatti his card as a thanks for being so kind to us on Johns birthday, then we ...