Day 61: Last stop, Tokyo!

This morning I took the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo which takes about 2 hours 20. I arrived at 11 and headed to the hotel to dump my stuff. The hotel is swanky with a really nice view. I headed to Shibuya crossing to meet Bec and her friends Jen and Andrew. The crossing wasn't as mad as I expected it to be, but maybe it depends on time/day of the week. We went in search of somewhere to eat. We originally found somewhere with a huge queue of Japanese people, which is always a good sign, but we gave up after about 20 mins queuing. The place was tiny, it would've been a long wait and we were starving. We found a ramen place nearby (yes, more Ramen). Tasty but not as nice as the others I've had. After lunch we stopped at an arcade shop. They're literally everywhere. I wasted about ¥500 with no success on the claw machines.  

This evening we went to New York Bar which is on the top floor of the Park Hyatt hotel. The bar was featured in Lost in Translation. It's rather pricey, and there's a cover charge after 8, so we only stayed for about 30 mins to have one drink. Anyway, I've seen a lot of sky views over the past couple of months, and they all start to blend into one eventually!

We headed to the Golden Gai area for drinks and food. It's a really cool area with lots of alleys with the tiniest bars you've ever seen, most of them don't fit much more than 5 or so people in. We had some terrible cheap sake and listened to some bad karaoke for a bit before finding somewhere to eat. That proved fairly difficult in the area and we ended up at some udon place which was fairly average. I had udon noodles with pork. Udon noodles are a lot heavier than ramen noodles and impossible to pick up with chopsticks. Every time I got them near my mouth they'd slip off and splash broth all over my face. Points for best dish go to Jen though with her udon carbonara, which was literally a big bowl of gloop 😂

Next on the agenda was karaoke! You can't not do karaoke in Japan! After some shameless lift selfies with some random japense people, we booked a private room for 2 hours with unlimited drink. Needless to say we were all awesome and rocked every song on the list. The videos speak for themselves. There will be more of that on this trip no doubt! 

So far so good. Loving Tokyo every bit as much as the rest of Japan! And it's nice to have some friends with me this time!