Today we went to Harajuku early to meet a good friend of mine, Laura Waiss. She has been here for a year now teaching English and we were super excited to meet again! It has been a loooong time since I've seen her. She was our tour guide for the day as we started out walking around Harajuku, catching up. Nothing was open yet, so she suggested we go to a place she called a "cheap Disneyland of food". We headed to Ikebukuro to Sunshine City, a place we had used as...

First of all, a quick shout out and congratulations to our friends back at home, Brian and Christa, who are getting married today!! Yay!! Congratulations! So today was once again filled with nerdiness, it seems all the anime shops bring out our inner otaku once again, yet every anime store we go into we can expect to find mostly products for the same three anime: Tiger & Bunny, Uta no Prince-sama, and One Piece. EVERYWHERE! NOTHING ELSE! Seriously. Anyway, o...

Today was a really dorky day, but it was a lot of fun! We started out at Denny's, a restaurant that is very upscale here and has a very Japanese-y menu. We were lucky that they had some American breakfast foods, because we didn't feel like fish again. We needed a taste of home. Luckily some french toast and eggs and toast did the trick! Our plan was to start out at the Miraikan Musuem of Science, which is located on an island in the Tokyo bay. My interest was in ...