tokyo: day 3

we finally got to sleep in... well almost. randy, erny and beng started pottering around at 9:30, and i assumed it was time to get up. except that the two of them sans randy went right back to bed. spent a great morning slacking off, chilling in the apartment and gaming a little with randy. then martin came over at about noon, and the slackers didn't get off the infernal gaming machine till almost 2:30.

conveyor belt sushi followed (the cheap stuff here is better than anything you'll get back home) and after stuffing ourselves, it was off to ikebukuro to look around. ok i am going to confess that one part of tokyo is beginning to look like every other part. shops, neon signs, many many people. you get the picture. headed off to tasaka for a fireworks display that martin promised would put anything we'd ever seen to shame and worth the long trek out to the suburbs. he wasn't joking. so we enjoyed almost 2 hours of continous fireworks and didn't end up getting back to tokyo till midnight.

getting out the wrong exit at shinjuku station is a big no no. nothing is really connected and you have to go around the whole building unless you want to pay to reenter the platforms.

good dinner, shopped for breakfast (a cherry turnover that came highly recommended) and now we're back in the room... at 1am.

here are the pictures.



finally.... our first sushi lunch


my share of the bounty


4000 yen (S$60) for durian?!?!?!?


randy happy with his new shop


the streets of ikebukuro


hardcore hat shop


good idea #1: suckable ice cream in a packet


descending into sunshine city (yeah it's underground)


t-shirt shopping (that ended up making us late and having to rush out to tasaka for our date with fireworks)


going batty after getting lost in shinjuku station


one shouldn't drink too much without a ride home


the long walk home