Sunday, June 17, 2007
The next day was another full day for us.
First we headed over to Ginza, one of the major shopping centers in Japan. I had never gone before so I was excited to go, and Celeste was especially excited to go to The Sony Store. The Sony Store has the latest Sony gadgets
At this point, we met up with Brad and headed over to Akihabara, the technology district. We walked around, went into stores, were overwhelmed by how much stuff there was. You could build an army of robots with the stuff they have in Akihabara. ike Transformer robots. With Lasers. We also ate crepes and drank melon soda.
And played video games.
Then we went over to Ebisu to get sushi. At this point I had been to Japan for a week already, and hadn't had any sushi yet. I can't believe there are people out there that think that Japanese food only consists of sushi. There's so much good food here, maybe the best in the world, and sushi only comprises a small component of the plethora of options.
After that it was late into the night and we decided to rest up for tomorrow.
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Sunday!
Sunday mostly consisted of going to Ikebukero, Sunshine City - A HUGE shopping mall with a million shops and a billion people. I've never seen so many people in my entire life packed into a building. There was a Gyoza stadium and Ice Cream place so I definitely wanted to check it out.
There are probably like 10 little Gyoza shops packed into a small place. You can get different kinds from 3-4 shops and it was really delicious. Cheese Gyoza, Regular Gyoza, Leek Gyoza, any kind of gyoza.
After Gyoza we went to the ice cream selection! Ever want Indian Curry Ice cream? You can get virtually any flavor you want here.
Would you like some "glape" ice cream?
They just have so much of everything you could want. On our way out we passed by a shoe place that had a million different pairs of shoes.
After Ikebukero we headed to Omote-Sando where they have a ton of shopping places. By then it was a little late but there were still lots of things to see. Wandering around we found lots of random places.
Purse Chandelier.
La Grotta Celeste
Whatever this is
This beautiful cathedral
By the time we were done looking around, we heade back to Akasaka for a late dinner. I forgot to take pictures, but we ate what basically is an Octopus pancake. It was gross.
In the morning I took Celeste back to Narita airport where she was headed back to the Philippines!
It was a crazy, busy weekend, and you only got a condensed version of it. There's so much to see in Tokyo that its pretty much impossible to pack it all in one weekend.
Anyway, now that the picture problem is solved, make sure you come back, as I have a lot of adventures I need to post!
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