Clubbing and Theme Parks

One of Cam’s uni friends, Diana, had come for a visit to Tokyo for a few days, so we all met up and went to UNIT in Daikanyama to see Sophi’s favourite DJ, High Contrast. We prepared ourselves for a night of banging drum n bass and we were definitely not let down. It had been a while between club nights for us, and our stamina proved to surprise us, with both of us dancing front and centre till the very end. We had to work the next morning, so by 5am when everyone wanted to kick on at an izakaya, we sadly had to call it a night.

Work the next day was extremely painful, our jobs involve talking one on one to people for 40mins at a time, and about 10 times a day. So, having had only a couple of hours sleep, and being really really hungover, is not a good combination.

Still feeling the effects of the weekend, we had organised to meet Chris Midlam’s brothers while they were in Tokyo for dinner and drinks. We took them to Shabu Shabu, and convinced them (they were reluctant) to have a karaoke session (very Japanese). We sang the standard songs, and the beer flowed like it always does. Quite a tame session really, but it was good to hang out with some Aussies again.

On Thurday we took the day off, and went to Tokyo Dome City. Tokyo Dome is the home ground for the baseball team, Tokyo Giants. Surrounding the stadium there is a shopping complex that is filled with rides and roller coasters. Cam stood up to his fear of roller coasters and thoroughly enjoyed the freefalling. It was a bit cold to go on some of the other rides, and most of them looked pretty crap anyway. We took a ride in the ferris wheel, but the view around Tokyo Dome is nothing special. We found a little café, and in the café everyone was sitting at their tables, and in one of the chairs there was a big soft toy having lunch with them. Weird. We later found out that this character is from Finland, and is hugely famous in Japan.