Ginza Life (Day 14)
>> Saturday, January 27, 2007
Ahh. Good night's sleep? Eh, not so much. I don't call sleeping from 7:30 AM until noon a good sleep, but I'll take what I can get. So much to do, so little time – Ryuhei awaits! Jean and I are splitting up today until dinner. I'm going to Shibuya to see Ryuhei Matsuda's new movie, Akumu Tantei (Nightmare Detective). This is was the movie we were trying to watch on Wednesday night, but no theatre was playing it. Since I was so determined, I meticulously scrubbed the internet in Japanese until a theatre came out of the woodwork. Arriving in Shibuya, it was really close to the station, so I had no problems finding it. I had a bit of a hard time buying a ticket since it wasn't like a usual movie theatre, so anything they explained to me in Japanese received a "Hai" from me, even though I had freaking idea what was going on.
The theatre was only playing this movie so they had movie paraphernalia, caps, a giant posterboard full of articles and…gasp…a signed poster by Ryu. I'm such a fangirl. The movie was alright, but very strange, as a lot of Japanese movies are. People keep on dying in their sleep as they are being attacked by a blobby-ish thing but to the people around the sleeping person, they see the sleeping person stabbing themselves in the neck. Um, it was gross. Lots of cutting and blood and people trying to stay awake.
After the movie I headed straight over to
Uniqro!
Yes, that is a crown on my head. It is very fitting considering where we went for dinner.
Man…I'm doing some serious name-dropping here. Bling bling.
My favorite name brand of all…Goo. No big deal.
Me and Jean then met and took the elevator up to my most anticipated restaurant experience of the trip…
As soon as you walk in, you are greeted with a pink rug that has "Princess Heart" emblazoned across it and the waitresses, girls dressed up in Lolita maid costumes, give you a chipper, "Welcome to the Party!" As you walk up the stairs up to the restaurant decorated with elf statues, you stop in front of a mirror on the wall and the waitress says that you should check your outfit to make sure you are dressed for the party. Confused and without an extra change of clothing, Jean and I agree we are dressed to party.
We came down pretty quick when we looked at the menu prices and were then told by our sweet little waitress that we have to order at least one drink and they prefer two. Glancing at the drink menu, the cheapest was 850 yen. Um…
This one was called 'the Seven Dwarfs'. As in usual Japanese fashion, the drinks were pretty watered-down, but tasty.
This was our dessert…kawaii! We ordered the set-o (set menu) for $30, and it was really good. I was definitely full and spent a lot of money.
I then decided that I needed some more socks, a crepe and another purikura, so where did we go? Harajuku.
Mine was filled with strawberries and ice cream. Oishi!
After enjoying my last taste of Japanese nightlife, we headed back to Hongo-Sanchome (our stop) and did some more karaoke. It would seem as though Japanese people get really worried when they see two white girls come in…they get all confused and can't reasonably conclude that we want to sing (at least judging my their confused looks they give one another.) Um…and apparently most people don't drink coffee when they karaoke, because when I ordered it, they snickered. After getting our room, some guys from Norway or whatever invited us for a beer, which we turned down since we were in the thick of a Good Charlotte song (thankyouverymuch).
After getting back to the ryokan, Jean went to use the intaneto and I went to take some pictures of our peculiar residence.
Our dining room
Futons
Doors to dining room
Our front gate
Down the hall from us
Hall to the washroom and hot bath
The party room
Random sink in hallway
Tomorrow, I'm gone…but we still have some fun before that. I'm feeling really sad about the whole situation. Vacations are so unfair.
Pout.
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