ginzaaa to akihabara to random reunions
March 19th, 2006mostly written on palm again, and since we got home at 12:30, i dont really have time to edit hax. enjoy
Today we went into central tokyo after our fair share of dodgy jdrama ;p. i was hoping to go look at the minami-gardens in the imperial palace, but as we didn’t end up making it through the heavily guarded gates, this turned into a stroll around the outskirts.
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we visited the sony building just for a look around. no photos of inside, but it basically consisted of 4 floor demonstrating sony’s newest displaus, notebooks, car entertainment systems. there were a couple of nice uber sized lcd displays, but mmm. the building design was nice at least.
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the weather is being pretty random, starting off with a 20c sunny day that could pass as a perth winter day, only to be covered by clouds during a 50minute train ride, then pouring with rain…
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i spotted 100yen on a huge road crossing, so made three passes to pick it up unsuspiciously ;d we had a bit of spare time before having to return home, so i decided we’d walk from ginza/yuurakusho to the closest we could to ueno, our train exchange point. we made it to akihabara. and saved 150yen!
we then went with mao to meet some peoples from his high school at a reunion kind of dinner. this was at a traditional japanese style restaurant with all-you-can-drink and a nice range of food to go. was quite fun 
and we had quite a bit of interesting half-english half-japanese conversation. we were going to go for some karaoke afterwards, but the girls got distracted by wanting to take a purikura (picture in arcade machines thingy). so we took one instead, and it was too late affterwards to do karaoke. but OMG we found a mario kart arcade machine!@!!111 winnnnnn. looked like so much hax – have to go back and play it tomorrow. 200y a play though :/ you could put your own face on theplayer in the kart, and it had nice m usic graphics and adjustable seats!
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vaios tomorrow. hooray
emergency trip to akihabara in the morning to get components for an instant upgrade.
peppy out
