So, turns out the Japanese have their own language, eating utensils, no shoes rule and a unique way of flushing the loo.
We arrived at our first hostel Asakusa Smile a few days ago after successfully navigating our way in circles in the Japanese heat and with our heavy backpacks.
Our room was a nice lil' shoe box. Our shared toilet was an experience for both of us. Their loos are high tech Panasonic or Toyota branded with many buttons. Neither of us wanted to get our hair wet, so FYI don't hit the blue button.
Our first morning was spent walking into what we call 'town' (just the local high street) to get some breakfast then we walked to Tokyo skytree to purchase tickets for the sky hop bus. On this open top, very touristy bus we ventured to Odaibo where we had the pleasure of seeing a famous japanese girl group, think spice girls on steroids! Actually we pretty much thought this whole area was on steroids. This place called Fuji TV and venture fort was full of over enthusiastic animations, high pitched singing, and was generally a really strange place. It was like a theme park but its an actual place with shops, restaurants, a professional TV studio and a big ferris wheel (yes we went on this).
After this experience we went to the more sophisticated, high end Ginza. This is just like Oxford street. From Ginza we then went onto the Electric town for dinner and to see this part of Tokyo lit up in the evening. This place was also very different, it was full of arcades and Japanese girls standing on the streets in tiny maid costumes promoting restaurants but actually, they looked like they were promoting Anne Summers. It felt like their red light district so we have a feeling these restaurants were not the norm inside.
And this is where this first post ends. We are writing this nearly a week into our trip so when we next have our spare hour we will post about our visit to Roppongi and pics of our new hostel (we are in cool traditional capsules).
Cj and Sam
After this experience we went to the more sophisticated, high end Ginza. This is just like Oxford street. From Ginza we then went onto the Electric town for dinner and to see this part of Tokyo lit up in the evening. This place was also very different, it was full of arcades and Japanese girls standing on the streets in tiny maid costumes promoting restaurants but actually, they looked like they were promoting Anne Summers. It felt like their red light district so we have a feeling these restaurants were not the norm inside.
And this is where this first post ends. We are writing this nearly a week into our trip so when we next have our spare hour we will post about our visit to Roppongi and pics of our new hostel (we are in cool traditional capsules).
Cj and Sam
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