Fast forward a handful of days. My last post was written while we were still in Kyoto, though I posted it after we arrived here in Tokyo, at the Khaosan Kabuki hostel, near the temple kaminari-mae.
I went to another concert before leaving Kyoto, but nice as it was, the most note-worthy thing was the amounts of fanservice, which is always appreciated, and the fact that one of the bands played the opening-song to Ghost in the shell, which is a song I personally love, as their intro.
Now we are finally settled in Tokyo after having gone on the Shinkansen, the 'super-train' that reaches around 500km am hour.
The confines of our room seem small at times, and four girls can create inordinate amounts of drama between them, but we have been to see the Shinjuku-district, mainly Visual Kei shops, and explored our nearby area, including the temple and the tourist-streets around it. Everything is very urban here, which is to be expected I suppose, and a bonus in that context, is the fact that everybody speaks English, unlike in Kyoto.
The people are nice and we've met several other foreigners here already, including a bunch of British guys with nice humour and good spirits^_~
Something I consider a particular achievement though, is the fact that we went to the Square Enix showroom yesterday. It's a place I've wanted to see since I learned of its existence about a year ago. I am a final fantasy fan, particularly FFVII, and I learned that in this merchandise-shop could be found a life-size figurine of the ultimate FF villain, Sephiroth. That is why, when I am actually in Tokyo and have the opportunity to go see it, and the store, I really wanted to do so.
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| Makes you feel like it's a good thing he's behind glass, doesn't he?~_^ |
I had some landmarks that I was supposed to find to be sure we were on the right track and I felt like the AVALANCHE-crew trying to trail Seph in the game, noting the arches and glass-pyramids marking our track. It was awesome.
Once there I spent an hour admiring thingamagigs and whatsits and we all agreed that Sephiroth is quite beautiful and breathtaking in real life as well as in pixelsXD I wanted to take him home with me, but I'm not so certain the General (ex-General? hmm, I wonder if ShinRa revokes your rank when you commit genocide and go crazy?) would appreciate thatXD.
Fact is he was impressively made, with individual strands of hair and eyelashes, eyes closed as if in peaceful sleep, though you never know when he might awaken!
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| So beautiful and serene when he's not on a murdering spree |
On Indian curry in Tokyo
On our way back home we got hungry and, passing by an indian restaurant, we went inside. I was eager to see if they make as good indian food in Japan as they do in London, which is where I've gotten the best indian food this far. They certainly do! I tend to forget how much I love indian food when I haven't had it for a while, but once I get it again, I just fall right back in love with it!
On Acid Black Cherry and Baileys
ABC isn't a drink, as one might be led to believe from the title, but a singer and we decided to finish off the day by drinking and watching one of his lives. The combination of that man's voice and the taste of chilled Baileys is quite delicious.
The common-room was full last night too and we got to taste the most expensive kind of beef in Japan, proper kobe-beef, which one of the owners had bought and was quite psyched about, enough so that she was dancing in circles, squealing and taking enthusiastic pictures of the unassuming meat in it's package. I love Japanese people<3
Today we're all pretty busted and lazy and we have no plans at the moment, maybe beyond actually cleaning up our room a bit, before the owners come to clean tomorrow.
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