3-Day Weekendo!

The fall is awesome because we have hella holidays going on up in hea, yo! Friday was Culture Day (HELLO, Culture Day is totally my favorite holiday!!!), so we got the day off, which was much-needed, as I am sick of worko! Cindy and I were going to be all nature-y and go to Oze, which is on the northern border of Gunma and is supposed to be all pretty and stuff. We were like, “We are sick of doing city stuff all the time, let’s go to something nature-y!” Then we found out it is cold up there and everything is probably dead already, so of course our next choice was to be SO nature-y and go to Tokyo instead. Hahaha. It was fun, though!

So I am sick of Tokyo because I always go to the same places and it isn’t exciting anymore. However, we decided to be spontaneous and try out new places and it was different and fun, woot! One of the most surprising finds was Shinbashi. We were only walking around there to switch train lines, but we found all kinds of cool places, mainly food, of course. They have a BAZILION yummy-looking restaurants there, abunaiiiiiii! They also have a fucking AWESOME Anpanman store there, yo! Anpanman fucking rocks! I got new toys for my desk and a Shokupanman hook-y thing for my keitai, too. Sweeto!

We randomly went to Subway, as they had these yummy-looking toasted wraps that were fucking GOOD! They were like fake burritos or something, they were awesome! I wish we had Subway in Gunma, hrm.

Anyway, after Shinbashi we went to Odaiba, which is one of the more famous places in Tokyo that I hadn’t been to. I am glad I went, but I don’t really see what the big deal is. We went to this shopping area that was a TOTAL fucking rip-off of the Parisian or whatever you call it in Vegas. It would be cool if they didn’t just copy the damn place! Oh, well.

After Odaiba we went to Naka-Meguro, which is a place that Cindy’s friend recommended. It is cool in that it has lots of little shops, but we were expecting something else and totally weren’t in the mood to shop, so it was kinda wasted on us. However, it TOTALLY redeemed itself when we found a motherfucking TACOS STAND there! Holy shit! They were cheap (well, for Japan) and were fucking good!!! The pork and guac taco tasted like the ones Eduardo and I would get at the Mexican store in Eugene! Holy shit, that shit was good. The guy like lives above it and stuff and I want to be his best friend, just because you know he is cool with shit like that! And they had Corona. I want to live there!

For dinner we made our way over to our favorite Indian restaurant in the world in Harajuku. It is seriously SO good and it is so reasonable! I fucking love that shit. We also made up for eating a lot by walking from Harajuku to Shibuya! Of course it isn’t that far, but it SOUNDS far! Haha.

I had to be in Tokyo the next day anyway, and Cindy didn’t want to worry about last trains back, so we checked another thing off our list by staying in a love hotel for the night!!! YAY! So for those who don’t know, love hotels are HUGE in Japan. We decided Japan is the only country that could have them and not be sketchy. They are hotel rooms that you can rent either for a few hours, or for the night. They are basically for having sex in. However, it isn’t TOO gross, I swear! One of the main reasons they exist is because people in Japan (for the most part) live with their parents until they get married, so they need somewhere else to have sex. A lot of husbands and wives also live in small apartments where they have no privacy, so it is also used for that reason. Of course, it is also used for affairs, too, but whatever.

Anyway, if these were in the States they would be dirty and disgusting. However, in Japan they are clean and a lot of them are cute! Some of them are themed rooms, and you know we had to shop around for the right one! It is awesome because in Shibuya they have TONS and TONS of love hotels, so you can literally shop for the perfect room. You just go in the lobby (where you don’t see the worker at the counter, you just see their hands, for privacy, haha) and there is a lit-up menu with pictures of each room that is available. If you like one of the rooms, you hit the button, then pay the lady (or her hands, rather) and get the key. If you don’t see one you like, you just go to the next hotel. Cindy and I went into at least 20-30 hotels before finding the right room! Yes, good ol’ Star Crescent had the room for us! It was a city-themed room and it fucking rocked! In normal light it looked like a normal room, but when you turn on the black lights all of the walls have like the city painted on it and shit! It was fucking awesome, yo. It was also nice, in that it came with a DVD player (we are probably the first guests to not watch porn, but to watch The American President, hahaha), a pretty big TV, satellite radio (I think, it had a million channels!), a huge shower area, etc! And it was cheaper than most hotels in Tokyo! Fuck, yeah, I am staying in love hotels from now on! We had to enjoy it to the fullest, so we left the music AND black lights on while we slept, hehe. Oh, by the way, we didn’t have sex ;) Haha.

Anyway, we totally have to go back to the Star Crescent at some point, as there were more vacancies when we checked out, and they had a damn beach-themed room with like the ocean on the wall! That is totally what we wanted in the first place! We are SO going back!