When we got back to the youth hostel after our stroll (we had walked quite a bit from Roppongi we realized when taking the sub back) we bumped into Sho, a japanese guy just a few years younger than us. He was in Tokyo for an job interview and originated from Aichi and his english was way better than the japanese average. He took us out for some eating and we had our own guide for the japanese cuisine. After several different dishes (you can share dishes straight from the plate apparently) we were satiated and happy. We had discussed cultural differences and helped us with the language so we could learn more handy phrases. On the way back we once again visited our favorite place for a quick shochu. We were greeted by the bartenders and what seems to be some of the regulars in the pub as well, which felt really nice. We discussed music and japanese for awhile before we headed back to the youth hostel. Sho told us that we were very welcome to stay at his place when/if we pass that city and it was on the way to Osaka/Kyoto so we think we will do that. He will leave for the states for some soccer camp later in next week but promised that he would work something out if we arrived then since his friends liked internationals. I spent some time searching for places to stay after the clubbing but it seems completely full due to some kind of summer festival or such.

Roppongi is mentioned to be a neighborhood were you actually can see brawls outside of pubs as compared to the rest of Tokyo which have extreme low crime-rate. It’s also where the clubs are open all night and some kind of red light district which you quickly tell by the signs and names of clubs. We found and S/M store but unfortunately it was closed, we might check it out later. I am interested in what the japanese mind can add to that genre of clothing and toys. We walked away from the clubs, checked out some posh interior design shops and have been walking in some parks for awhile. We saw on a map that there was supposed to be a university here as well so we plan to check that out now.

The university eluded us but we checked out more parks, were walking around Tokyo Tower which really isn’t much compared to other buildings we’ve seen so far. We had dinner at a middle cast indian restaurant which were OK but nothing more. We still haven’t figured if we should go out clubbing tonight but the thought of being tired/hung over and no secured place for the night doesn’t sound that nice. We’ll see, we have confirmed stay on sun/monday so saturday might be the day for Womb.

Yep, it’s doable and you get the same hangover as in every other country. We just had to verify this though. We went out for food around 21 after showering and enjoying our own room. We had to do some exercising as well and I guess we looked pretty gay if someone would have entered the room when we were doing pushups and crunches. At least we drunk some local liquor between the sets. Anyways, we went to the place we ate at the very first day in Tokyo. A very small bar/teriyaki place with nice background music.

We practiced our japanese with the very nice looking girl and her english-speaking male colleague. We ordered some Shochu Roku (some 25%-ish stuff on the rocks) and since we are so nice and good looking we got the attention of the other visitors in the bar. They asked with the help of the bartender who could a little english where we were from and then mentioned IKEA, Volvo, SAAB and that we were quite good on soccer (?). Some laughs and more shochu later we realized that the curfew was soon active on our hotel. The music was really good (Ministry of Sound or similar) and I was a bit surprised when I heard Tomas Andessons’s ‘Washing Up’ remixed by Tiga through the speakers. And the girl was handling the music, we just had to ask her for for clubs and to write them down (Kaite Kudasai is a very handy phrase). She was happy to help us and we think that she was flirting with us, but it might been the shochu 😉 We got a few tips in different areas and are going to check out at least Womb (which a friend who lived here also recommended) in Shinjuku this weekend. After leaving the bar we decided that we needed a tiny sip of shochu before we went to bed.

So we bought a bottle of shochu in a convenient store (which by the way is named Sunkus) and we also found the wonderful party soft drink called ‘deeppresso’. Back at the youth hostel we teamed up with Eric, our dutch friend who we shared the room with. He brought some beers and we started the discussions of how to solve the world. Also the topics private property, japanese ways of handling unemployment (will elaborate this later together with a section discussing their toilets) were undertaken. Eric was to see some fish marked 6 pm but we just laughed at the idea of going there since we were more or less pissed and the clock was 3 pm. We woke up at the time for checking out and had to make a hasty retreat.