TOKYO!!!!!!!

            So today I went with some friends to go to Tokyo! I was so excited to go and we were hoping to go to the district where people dress up really crazy (like anime characters). We asked which one it was and what trains we should take to get to Tokyo. We really only ended up having one transfer and it didn’t cost too much money to get to Tokyo and back ($15 roundtrip). So the lady who told us where to go told us where the anime district is (not the same as the dress up one but still really cool) and so we went around that area. There were so many buildings dedicated only to anime – like 8 floors of just that! Multiple of them! There were some girls dressed in maid outfits advertising their shop and there were just random images of anime everywhere. Some of the images were explicit, which I wasn’t expecting, but for the most part they were ok. It’s too bad that the Japanese people also don’t really know English (only what they learn in school but it’s not conversational) so we still couldn’t talk to anyone. After wandering around enjoying the ridiculous sights (anime advertising a car wash, lightsaber chopsticks! – would have bought them but they were crazy expensive – over $20 – just like everything else in Japan is super expensive, KISS pandas, jedi cloak, etc), we decided to go to the Tokyo stop. It turned out to be the business district, but it had a cool underground mall so we walked around that for a while. We had to get back early so we left and got back ok. I had wanted to do some karaoke, but apparently you pay for private rooms here, its not just open bar like in the States. Guess that’s because they are way more serious about it here. Anyways, it was an awesome day. Oh, it’s rude to eat in public (unless of course it’s a restaurant in which case it is no longer ‘public’) so we couldn’t eat on the train heading back, even though we were very hungry. It’s interesting to see what other people consider rude, because we would never think about twice about eating on the run at all.