Tokyo

All I can say is....oh my gosh, I LOVE TOKYO!!! Al and I had the best time ever in Tokyo and now we both want to move there. We were only there for 48 hours, but it was the best 48 hours! I'll start from the beginning... We flew Asiana Airlines, it was a 2.5 hour flight. They gave us food, wine, movies and didn't charge us for our bags!! We arrived in Tokyo at 3 p.m. and proceed to take the monorail to the JR station, from there we were supposed to arrive at our stop and navigate to our hotel which was only 6 minutes away. Well, Al and I got totally lost. We didn't have the JR information and only had the subway line info. So we end up at the right station after an hour. Then we exit and try to navigate through the city to our hotel. We ask a couple of people where to go, they were very friendly. We end up meeting this totally nice guy, Atsuto, and he helps us get to our hotel. It only took us 2 hours!! We enter our room, which is very small. (Please see video). We take our new friend out for coffee as a thank you, and decided that we all want to go out to dinner. (We stayed in Shinjuku, a really sweet part of town). We go for Udon and Shashimi over rice. It was by far the best dinner we've had in a long time!! And it was only $7 each! Turns out, the area where we were was part of the "red light" district, but I didn't notice that at all. Everyone was rocking 80s style, so watch out, it may be coming to the US soon... Al and I wanted to go out dancing, so we asked Atsuto where to go and he suggested a club called Camelot in Shabuya. He couldn't come with us, as his girlfriend would be very angry with him! (LOL!) So Al and I went and had a blast! Camelot was full of foreigners and natives. And when I say foreigners, I mean from all over the world, not just North America. (That is the first difference between Korea and Japan, there are foreigners from all over the world there, not so much in Korea). They have areas with tables for just ladies, so there's somewhere to sit. And they won't let you take pictures in the club because they have their own photographer taking pictures. So that wasn't cool, but they were playing all of the jams! Al and I totally got down, but realized that our moves are super rusty! So I need to start working on them again. We stayed out till 4:30 a.m. and had to be up by 9 a.m. to do all of the sightseeing we wanted to do.

We were out of the hotel by 10 a.m. the next morning and headed straight to Harajuku! It was a really beautiful day and we did a ton of walking around. There are so many different types of people there. All dressed totally different. And all shapes and sizes, which is very unlike Korea. The people are ten times more friendly and I'd say better looking. The guys there are tall!! Which is always a plus in my book. We saw some Harajuku girls and guys, but not as many as we'd hoped. We went and toured a temple/park and it was so huge and beautiful. After that we ventured to Asakusa to see a really amazing temple at dusk. I got some really good video there. It was very breathtaking. And there was a shopping bazaar all the way to the temple, where I got two beautiful wall material posters. After a long day, Al and I decided that we wanted some sake and sushi. So we went back to the hotel to change and ask the concierge where the best place to go was. He had no idea, so we ventured back to Shabuya and found a great place. We had sushi, chicken wings, and edemami! It was a really great place and we decided right then and there that we want to live in Tokyo!! Its a must! It was really difficult to come back to Korea after that. The food is so much better in Japan. But the cost of everything else is just so much higher there than here. So, we'll see what happens next. But we are planning another trip there soon!