Today we each did our own thing. I had planned to go to the Imperial Palace today until I realised it's closed on Mondays. I started off by going to see the Tokyo Tower, which is just a less impressive version of the Eiffel Tower. While I was there I saw a group of people dressed as super mario characters. You can do this activity here where you dress up and drive around in super mario karts in the streets! It's amazing! Had I known about it I totally would've booked to do it.
From the tower I went to Ueno where there is a park and a zoo. I walked past a ramen restaurant with a queue so stopped for some lunch. Ramen is fast becoming my favourite food. It was really good, and rivalled some of the better ramen I've had here so far. I walked around the gardens for a bit and then headed East to see a couple of shrines in Asakusa. The area itself was pretty cool, although the temples were nothing special, and one of them was completely covered by screens for renovation. To finish the day I travelled back to Roppongi and went up the Mori tower for views of the city. It is a fairly steep entry price, but I think the views are worth.
This evening we went to Robot restaurant for a show. I can't even begin to describe it, it was just so bizarrely Japanese. The pictures speak for themselves really. It was expensive for what it was, but in a weird way I thoroughly enjoyed it. Afterwards we found a fancy dress karaoke and had such an amazing night! I lost count of Jen's costume changes over the two hours we were there, but I was rocking the cow onesie and Alice in Wonderland.
I can't believe I only have one night left until I go back to Scotland. I was ready to go home until I got to Japan. Now I feel like I could stay here forever I love it so much. And I'm having so much fun with this crazy bunch of Aussies. They're trying to get me to stay on with them and go back to kyoto and Osaka. I'm sorely tempted!
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