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We got up early again this morning to go and scout out the sumo stables and watch the sumos train. We had to change trains and found it difficult to find the station that we needed, we ended up getting to the stable just as they finished! Absolutely gutted. We did manage to get a few photos with them whilst they were outside talking. We are going to go and see them again on Thursday morning before we check out!
I think the wrong time was out up on the website because it said that they were supposed to finish at 10.30am and we got there for 9am!
We were starving so went and found a noodle bar to have some breakfast, we found a noodle bar in Akihabara metro station. The food was nice but the noodles were whole meal, wasn't a great fab of the noodles but it was cheap food so who's complaining! This time around we had a posh ticket machine that was touch screen and had an English version on it so it made the ordering process a little easier!
We decided to take the metro line to Harajuku District, the district with the young crazy fashion culture and home to Takes***a Street. This time around it was a lot busier with young teenagers everywhere. We found the tamagotchi shop! Tamagotchi is nothing like it used to be and a tamagotchi costs £35 these days! We were a little disappointed at that shop! It wasn't as crazy as we expected it to be!
There were plenty of clothes shops and accessories shops lining the Takes***a street with crazy outfits and extravagant wig shops. In Tokyo the girls wear the bright colour wigs with pony tails!
It was very colourful and fun, lots of bizarre outfits and even men dressed up in little frilly dresses and skirts with brightly coloured latex shoes on!
Only in Tokyo!
Next we went back to Shibuya and had a look around the shops and found a sushi bar to try out! It was a new high tech sushi bar, we each had a number seat and computer screen. We were able to select three dishes at a time and once we had selected them we had to press order and they would make it in the kitchen. When our dishes were ready a little tray would come along one of three train tracks and stop at your seat for you to take your dish of the tray! It was fab! Scott tried the fish spring rolls but didn't try any of the other fish dishes! I had seafood rainbow roll, salmon fillet with chill oil and a shrimp roll. They were all delicious! We didn't have any more because of the expense. Just to say that we had been in a sushi bar and ordered food in Tokyo is cool! Plus I could have stayed there all day and tried the whole menu! Haha.
We went back for a chill before we went out for some food and then to meet the three Japanese guys that Scott made friends with in Bangkok on Khao San Road! We met Ken and Tom at Ueno train station and Shun came along afterwards, they took us to a a prison restaurant! It was scary but fun! Every table was in a 'cell' and it had a prison cell like door. If you wanted a waitress you had to press the intercom. It was very dark and spooky! Every now and then they would turn the lights off and the 'monsters would come around into your cell aswell and scare the shot out of you! Tom kept pointing at me because I was so scared, mainly for the fact I didn't know whether they could touch you or not because the actors in London dungeons can't touch you, they just come up very close and personal and scare he s*** out of you! I was climbing on Scott, he was in hysterics laughing at me! I was on the verge of crying! They were scared looking monsters!
We had a cocktail each, they were 'gruesome' cocktails. I had one with an eyeball coming out of it (obviously not real) and Scott had a cocktail that he had to mix like a potion, it was really good! We had a really good laugh and chatted all night! We both really enjoyed ourselves, Japanese hospitality is fab! We got to learn a little Japanese and they even wrote ours and their names down in Japanese!
My name means beautiful and strong (of course) and Scott means pure heart!
We were sad to leave them but they're coming to England and Ireland for a month in August to study so maybe they could make a weekend trip to Cardiff and we will have a night out then!
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