James Dodon's Blog: Japan Gad Trip 2013 day 4! :D

Hello everyone! :)

This marks the fourth day of our trip in Japan, complete! :D

Today I awoke at 9:00 a..m, showered, got ready, and headed over to the other guys flat.
There I finished my blog from yesterday and posted it, while waiting for the other guys to get ready and decide what we were doing.
They were watching TV, soccer I think.

We then went out in search of breakfast, and could not find anything.
But right before we entered the MTR and gave up all hope, I spotted a restaurant that sold breakfast until 11 a.m.

Well, it was 10:50 so we rushed inside and I ordered some egg and rice set that was delicious! :D
My chopstick skills have been increasing a lot lately xD ;)
The benefits of living in Asia with Asian friends I suppose ;p

After eating Jeff took me to the citibank atm to withdraw some cash, and we all headed into the mtr.
There we decided to split up, and Jeff and I headed off to Akihabara street. (A really manga/anime centric area of Japan)

We were able to sit and talk about pokemon and stuff while on the train ride, because it takes forever to get to Akihabara from where we are. (okay just like 30 - 19 minutes)

Eventually we made it though! :D :

And then we exited the mtr and wandered around entering stores and looking at things to buy.

Within a short span of time I found a stack of Tohou things I wanted to buy.
(Tohou is a very hard video game with aweseome music that is hard to come by, and they had some of the games and all the music I wanted too I think)

[Above:Tohou project section of one of the first stores we checked out]

Jeff advised me not to spend so much early on in our day of shopping, so I left them there and went out to look elsewhere.

Jeff found a crane machine and won himself and me each a little anime card thing, which was cool :D

Then we went and looked around in more stores, and I kept asking if they had the things I wanted and sometimes it was yes, other times no.

We found a really cool building with many different floors of manga, anime, art books, idol pictures (which Jeff loves), and all sorts of other things.

I found some of the things I was looking for there, and bought some art books and stuff :)

[Above: Jeff and me in the store looking around]

I even found a collection of really expensive Duffys, even some weird black one and a magical one:

After shopping there for quite a while, Jeff and I left and went for lunch in the AKB48 cafe.
(AKB48 is a girl-band singer group in Japan that is national status or something, they are idols and Jeff adores them)
Jeff and I both got the steak and rice combo;

The little cafe had televisions all over that were playing videos of various performances of AKB48 throughout its existence.
Jeff ordered a drink and it came with a collectible coaster that he really liked, so he offered to and did buy me a drink so he could get another one of the coasters.

He got me an orange juice, and it came with a straw twisted in the sahpe of an 8, representing AKB48 I guess.

[Above: Jeff taking a photo of the 8 shaped straw.]

After that we went back out and shopped some more, and found a toy store with really good prices for things. (apparently it was a secondhand store)

They also had a touhou game, but it was expensive lol

[Above: tiny shopping cart in second hand store lol]

After that we went to a Japanese Idol store, for C-ute I think, and they are rivals for AKB48 lol

I sat and watched their music vids while Jeff shopped around.
It took forever xD
I swear he was trying to hit me with a Tsunami of Idolness xD

Well anyway, after that we had 4 minutes to make it to the meeting spot so we ran like hell :P

I had wanted to get Touhou products from the earlier store we found, but we didnt have time. :/

We met up with the guys and decided to go to the AKB48 cafe again for dinner xD

So I got Ice cream this time :P
(I didnt really like the menu very much loll, I ate the only thing I liked for lunch)
The ice cream was delicious though :D
So good that I forgot to get a photo of it first xD:

Oh and all the idol performances play in screens in the cafe:

After that we split up and Jeff took me back to the touhou shop so I could get the things I had wanted to xD
But my funds were low, so I settled on getting two of the games :)

Then we headed back to where our hotel was, and Jeff got sucked in by all the crane machines @0@
So we wandered around in there for a while, and I resisted spending any money for a while but at the last moment (after we left and had entered 3 crane buildings) I gave up and spent 200 Yen
But I at least got 1 thing from the machines, so that is okay.
Then Jeff saw me and was like okay, time to go xD

So we went back to the hotel.
We showed each other our war spoils, and started packing.

However, the other guys didnt show up.
We began to get really worried, and wondered if they had missed the last train...

We went down to the lobby for wifi, because the other guys had the wifi with them and we needed to contact them.
Well we wandered and waited in the lobby.
And eventually they responded to our texts and told us that they were on their way on the last train.

So we went back to our hotel room and chilled.
They showed up, and we chilled for a while.

Idr exactly what happened, but I ended up writing a lot of this blog and went to sleep cuz it was 2 a.m. loll

But yeah, that was my day :)
Thanks for reading! ^u^

Love,

~James D.

(p.s. it was hard to write my blog last night because we were watching anime :P xD