Weird Japanese Shit!

More Drunken Frivolity

Another of Sophis students, Haruhisa, wanted to meet up for dinner for some English conversation, so we met him and his friend at an Izakaya in Shibuya. Haruhisa works for UFJ bank as an international something or rather. He bought his friend who had lived in Australia for some years. It was a good meal….even with the experimentation of eating beef intestine….definitely not one for Sophi’s taste buds! Lots of drinks later and feeling rather boozed we said sayonara to our drunk and wobbly Japanese friend.

Then across the road outside 109 we reunited with Kumiko!! This first time we’d see her since she got back from Australia. Was sooooo good to see her!! We joined Kumi who was with Hana and Hanas work friends. We went to another izakaya …. some where in Shibuya (a bit blurry). The izakaya was nice and there were some amusing Japanese characters there. The most amusing of all is the fact that one of them kept saying that 2 of the guys there were ‘typical’ sexy Japanese men. Really doesn’t work for Sophi! Just a very different look!

Sexy?

Sexy!

Sexier!

Sexiest?

As a usual happening of late Cam of course passed out and Sophi guided him to a cab.

We joined at Takakos house for dinner to catch p with Kumi. Takako lives in a year old apartment (NB: Japanese apartment), it’s cute and new! A typical tiny Japanese kitchen, bedroom/lounge room. On this night we were aquianted with the gorgeous Totoro!! We had see him in the cartoon Ghibli movie “My Neighbour Totoro”. SO adorable!! The feast and lots of umechoo (the new favourite drink - potent plum wine) went down all to well, and we ended the night at 2am.

Mini playland and Kooky ice-creams!!

The next day we headed to Ikebukuro. On the other side of the city circle. We went to Sunshine city, which is meant to be greaqt for shopping etc. The most interesting thing in this building was Namba land! How crazy and soooo Japanese!

Everyone was running around with some gadgets playing some game, unfortunately we couldn’t play as it was all in Japanese. It was seriously like being in a mini Disney fun land…. Except it was on the top 2 floors of a shopping centre!

We also finally accounted with the famed ice-cream that we had heard so many rumours about. The ice cream of so many different and strange flavours, like curry and prawn!!

Sweet Heart Day

For Valentines Day a few days later, we headed to a new izakaya in Shibuya. On the other side of the tracks it wasn’t that different to any other izakaya. We had a set Valentines course which consisted of several small courses. Very Japanese style and size!

Kabuki and Lego

A week later we decided to hit up Ginza on our day off for some cultural sightseeing. This time we decided to check out the Kabuki theatre (one of Japan traditional type of theatre). As it is quite slow to watch (I’m sure if you get a very theatrical one with awesome costumes it would be much more entertaining) we only stayed for a little less than one scene. The advantage with this is that you can just pay to see one scene. Sophi would’ve happily sat there and watched the whole thing, but Cam was getting a little restless and it was soooo damn hot in there!!

Next stop was a gallery space in top of one of Shibuyas department stores. The Lego exhibition: ‘Piece of Peace’ – World Heritage Exhibit with Lego.

As gay as it sounds straight off the bat, it was actually great. There were huge Lego statues of famous landmarks from around the world. Amazing, the magnitude of each sculpture and the detail that was caught in each one.