Last night we decided to head out for a few drinks in Kochi before dinner. First up we went into a small corner bar called Jack's Bar. It had a very homey feel inside and lots of memorabilia from different countries around the world such as USA and Australia. The owner settled us into a corner table that was snugly packed with pillows. He brought us our drinks as well as a small tasting plate of squid, potato pizza and octopus. We ended up chatting with the owner about Australia because he has a friend who lives in Port Lincoln and who he has visited before. He even showed us a photo album of his trip.

After two drinks there we decided to change it up a bit. We were going to have bonito for dinner but we were kind of full from the bar snacks so instead we went and got some taiyaki. Oishii!

We then went into another bar called Hibiscus which I'd seen online. It was on the second floor of a building and was decorated very tropical in tribute to the tropical islands of Japan, Okinawa. It was very cool in there and we enjoyed some more drinks and some shochu, which was strong but tasty. There were a few big groups of people that came in and eventually they cracked out the karaoke. It was funny. They just stayed sitting around their table with a microphone in their hand whilst everyone around them basically paid no attention to them singing. There was also a snake kept as a pet in the bar that the patrons could get out and have a hold of. I was not fond of having any snake holding time. After a while we decided we wanted to karaoke as well!

We headed over to Big Echo, a Japanese karaoke chain, and got a room for an hour to belt out a few tunes. Hopefully this is one of many karaoke nights we have! I could easily spend a few hours there!

We decided to call it a night after that and stopped at Family Mart on the way home for some snacks. It was a good night.