Japan Day Four : Imperial Palace and Shibuya...

This morning Woo and I had planned to get up early and go to the Tokyo fish markets. When Woo woke me up at 6:30am, I just didn't have it in me to get up, dressed and out into the world at that early hour. I mean, I know they are supposed to be quite a sight (the fish markets) but thats pretty fucken early.

So we slept until 9am ish, and the got up and headed out to Tokyo. We walked from the station to the Emperial gardens and along the way grabbed breakfast. A $60 breakfast, mind you. Since the Yen has performed so strongly against the dollar over the last few months, everything is spastically expensive here now, when you convert it back.

The Imperials palace was lovely, but you cant get in, so basically we just have lots of photo's of the wall. Woo asked a guard if there was any way we could get in, and he just got ignored.

Not to far from the Palace is a fucken awesome stature of some dude, in full samurai armour on a horse. I have no idea who he is, but the statue was wicked.

We then went into Shibuya to do some shopping. We had no specific plans as to what we wanted to buy and hence the trip became a lot of walking around doing little. Or walking around marvelling at the smoking hot tail all over the place.

We went back to the hotel in Shinagawa. Walked around the area, then went up to the rooftrop bar. Drinks were 1500 yen each (about $30) but we copped that as the veiw was so impressive.

After than we headed back out to Shibuya to meet Dennis and his mate, both of whom were here for the Socceroos game tomorrow. On "Emporers Day" no less. The Japanese are gonna be fucken pissed when they lose......

We all went to a pub together and drank for a good 4 hours before the bar closed. Woo had made friends with the bartender, whose name was "Dick", which everyone found approppriately amusing. And in the end, Dick had to kick us out. Woo and I grabbed a burger before heading home. Once we got back to the hotel, Woo cracked the shits that our hotel didn't do room service (as he ws still hungry) and then went to sleep.

So, a pretty quiet day four. Day five includes the massive world cup qualifier of Japan Vs Australia, and the constant threat that Woo is gonna move here, learn the language and marry a Japanese girl.

Arigato for reading :-P