Red is in.
This past weekend I went to Tokyo again... Which I kind of shouldn't have, because Golden Week is definitely going to kill me financially... but oh well! I decided to check out a church down there since it is Easter Sunday and all.
Anyway, Saturday I had to wake up at 5am so I could catch a 6am shinkansen for Tokyo, so I could save some money on ticket costs (but it was a good deal!). And so I arrived at 8AM... and all shops don't open until 10pm. Darn.
So I pretty much had to kill two hours. Eating breakfast and taking the train to Shibuya killed 1 hour, then me walking from Shibuya to Roppongi hills another 30 minutes, and then walking up and down a street completely bored the rest of it :P
So eventually, the Vodafone shop opened up and I went in to go check out the new 904SH model, which was just released that day. It's a pretty awesome phone. Has the world's first VGA screen (and it looked really great, too), GPS, Mobile FeliCa, and this awesome vApplication that can give you astronomical data on the fly! That last point really makes me interested in it. But alas, I didn't buy it... yet!
I don't know if I will, but I want to!
Ok back to my trip. After the vodafone store, I went to the arcade to kill some more time before i met up with my friend for lunch. I played the Gundam card game again, and the other RPG card game I may or may not have mentioned before. 1500JPY, lots of fun, and an hour later, I finally decided to leave the dark atmosphere into the bright sunny saturday morning (evil sun!). Of course, I still had a ton of time to kill before I had to meet up with my friend, so I decided to try and find the Canadian Embassy... Which I did, after another 30 minutes of walking. The only problem is they are closed on weekends (so useless), so I ended up walking to the closest JR station (which was yet another 15 minutes) to go to Shinjuku. Essentially, I walked in almost a huge circle if I didn't take the train back.
(If you want to see it on a google maps, I walked from 渋谷駅 to 六本木ヒルズ to カナダ大使館 to 信濃町駅, which I then went to 新宿駅 by train).
Anyway, after I got to Shinjuku it was time to go get some sushi lunch goodness. That, once again, was awesome.
After that, we headed back to Shibuya (the circle is complete!), as he needed to go shopping for something. Unfortunately, we couldn't find it so we gave up and just went to the hotel to check in. After sitting in the hotel for about 30 minutes, we, with mostly my influence, decided to go to Yokohama to shop, since I know what he wanted was at the Yokohama World Porters. So off we went to Yokohama. Any excuse to go to Yokohama :) Such a nice city. If you ever are going to Japan, Yokohama's Minato Mirai District is definitely a must see. After he got what he wanted, we headed back to central Tokyo, since we had a reservation at an Italian restaurant.
It was really really amazing, and not too expensive either, unlike that French restaurant I was talking about a while ago :P. I really miss pizza, and was totally thrilled to be able to go again!
After pizza, I had an appointment to get a hair cut at some place outside of central Tokyo, in the more residential area.
Now, here's a funny story about trains in Tokyo. The private lines all interchange their trains every once and a while, so you get Saitama Railway trains on the subway line, Odakyu trains on the subway lines, etc. So the place I was going to was beside a small station, and getting there was fun... and confusing. First we went from Shinjuku to a small station (shimo-kitazawa) on the Keio line to transfer to the Odakyu line. Well, it seems we boarded the wrong train (the rapid instead of the local), because we zoomed right past the station I needed to get off at (this is what happens when you are in a rush and don't stop to read signs to make sure you are boarding the right train). So luckily it stopped at the station just after the station I wanted. We ran from one train to the one directly in front of it which was clearly an Odakyu train (I mean, it's just a private line at a small station that has only three platforms!). Hopped on this train, except when it started moving, it went in the wrong direction. And where did we end up? On the Chiyoda subway line. So essentially, an Odakyu train became a subway train. Talk about confusing! Eventually, I made it to the right station (because this time I actually read signs to make sure it was the right train) and got there about 30 minutes late. Sigh... After the haircut I was just too tired to want to do anything else, so we just went back to our hotel and slept.
Next day was pretty uneventful, I went to Church in the morning, ate ramen at an awesome place, walked around omote-sando hills (which is a really expensive and exclusive-type mall. really really nice), went to the Square-Enix shop (I now own a stuffed tonberry! woo), and headed back to Ueda. All the walking the of the day before and this day just really sapped me of energy, because I was so tired and didn't really do much. I ended up going home earlier than I originally planned. haha. I just slept on the shinkansen back.
Oh well, fun weekend none-the-less. I'll get a picture of my new tonberry up soon :)
Oh, and one more thing. My hair colour is now red. That is all.
Anyway, Saturday I had to wake up at 5am so I could catch a 6am shinkansen for Tokyo, so I could save some money on ticket costs (but it was a good deal!). And so I arrived at 8AM... and all shops don't open until 10pm. Darn.
So I pretty much had to kill two hours. Eating breakfast and taking the train to Shibuya killed 1 hour, then me walking from Shibuya to Roppongi hills another 30 minutes, and then walking up and down a street completely bored the rest of it :P
So eventually, the Vodafone shop opened up and I went in to go check out the new 904SH model, which was just released that day. It's a pretty awesome phone. Has the world's first VGA screen (and it looked really great, too), GPS, Mobile FeliCa, and this awesome vApplication that can give you astronomical data on the fly! That last point really makes me interested in it. But alas, I didn't buy it... yet!
I don't know if I will, but I want to!
Ok back to my trip. After the vodafone store, I went to the arcade to kill some more time before i met up with my friend for lunch. I played the Gundam card game again, and the other RPG card game I may or may not have mentioned before. 1500JPY, lots of fun, and an hour later, I finally decided to leave the dark atmosphere into the bright sunny saturday morning (evil sun!). Of course, I still had a ton of time to kill before I had to meet up with my friend, so I decided to try and find the Canadian Embassy... Which I did, after another 30 minutes of walking. The only problem is they are closed on weekends (so useless), so I ended up walking to the closest JR station (which was yet another 15 minutes) to go to Shinjuku. Essentially, I walked in almost a huge circle if I didn't take the train back.
(If you want to see it on a google maps, I walked from 渋谷駅 to 六本木ヒルズ to カナダ大使館 to 信濃町駅, which I then went to 新宿駅 by train).
Anyway, after I got to Shinjuku it was time to go get some sushi lunch goodness. That, once again, was awesome.
After that, we headed back to Shibuya (the circle is complete!), as he needed to go shopping for something. Unfortunately, we couldn't find it so we gave up and just went to the hotel to check in. After sitting in the hotel for about 30 minutes, we, with mostly my influence, decided to go to Yokohama to shop, since I know what he wanted was at the Yokohama World Porters. So off we went to Yokohama. Any excuse to go to Yokohama :) Such a nice city. If you ever are going to Japan, Yokohama's Minato Mirai District is definitely a must see. After he got what he wanted, we headed back to central Tokyo, since we had a reservation at an Italian restaurant.
It was really really amazing, and not too expensive either, unlike that French restaurant I was talking about a while ago :P. I really miss pizza, and was totally thrilled to be able to go again!
After pizza, I had an appointment to get a hair cut at some place outside of central Tokyo, in the more residential area.
Now, here's a funny story about trains in Tokyo. The private lines all interchange their trains every once and a while, so you get Saitama Railway trains on the subway line, Odakyu trains on the subway lines, etc. So the place I was going to was beside a small station, and getting there was fun... and confusing. First we went from Shinjuku to a small station (shimo-kitazawa) on the Keio line to transfer to the Odakyu line. Well, it seems we boarded the wrong train (the rapid instead of the local), because we zoomed right past the station I needed to get off at (this is what happens when you are in a rush and don't stop to read signs to make sure you are boarding the right train). So luckily it stopped at the station just after the station I wanted. We ran from one train to the one directly in front of it which was clearly an Odakyu train (I mean, it's just a private line at a small station that has only three platforms!). Hopped on this train, except when it started moving, it went in the wrong direction. And where did we end up? On the Chiyoda subway line. So essentially, an Odakyu train became a subway train. Talk about confusing! Eventually, I made it to the right station (because this time I actually read signs to make sure it was the right train) and got there about 30 minutes late. Sigh... After the haircut I was just too tired to want to do anything else, so we just went back to our hotel and slept.
Next day was pretty uneventful, I went to Church in the morning, ate ramen at an awesome place, walked around omote-sando hills (which is a really expensive and exclusive-type mall. really really nice), went to the Square-Enix shop (I now own a stuffed tonberry! woo), and headed back to Ueda. All the walking the of the day before and this day just really sapped me of energy, because I was so tired and didn't really do much. I ended up going home earlier than I originally planned. haha. I just slept on the shinkansen back.
Oh well, fun weekend none-the-less. I'll get a picture of my new tonberry up soon :)
Oh, and one more thing. My hair colour is now red. That is all.
posted by Matt at
4/17/2006 09:59:00 PM
