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| lost in yoyogi after
walking for over half an hour with a backpack and suitcase in
80 degree weather and 90% humidity. ugh! |
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| the neon of
shinjuku. |
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| a useful shinjuku
landmark. while elaborate details of tokyo's hierarchical
numerical addressing scheme are useful, identifying landmarks
and interpolating is also pretty effective most of the time.
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| heading towards
kabukicho. |
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| knowing the
basic kana syllabaries is definitely useful for a trip
here, e.g., karaoke on the 4th floor of this building on the right. |
|
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| snappity snap! |
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|
flashback to
year 2000! that's the club code complex on the right. |
|
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| key features of
pachinko parlors: neon, loud machines, thumping music, optional
girls at the door, and the occasional live voice blaring onto
the street over an outdoor speaker system. |
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| another typical
street in shinjuku. note the sweat on this guy's face in
the foreground. it was hot and humid! |
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| taking a break from
the heat with a few 200 mg ibuprofen tablets and a cup
of sake to wash it down! :D |
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| the drink menu
at this sushi restaurant in kabukicho. kanji. aieeee! |
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| sushi "combo meal #2".
as you can imagine, this was outstanding. the uni was
pure silk. mmmm...
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| in search for
an after dinner drink. |
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| NEON! |
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| more. |
|
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| and more. |
|
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| nihon-shu! many
bars/restaurants featured a mind-boggling array of bottles
that i have never seen before. |
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| a relatively
empty stretch (note that this was a monday night). |
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| a tough job: cooking
sizzling skewers with various impaled crustaceans in boiling
hot weather! EEEP! |
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| seafood heaven. |
|
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| continued. |
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| a steal for about
$27 usd. |
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| and just a short walk
from the yoyogi stop on the jr yamanote train line (and various
other interesting parts of shinjuku). |
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| among other things,
it features 14 floors, including a basement floor (b1)
filled with a mind-numbing assortment of food and drink.
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| random restaurant
on the 14th floor where i had lunch. |
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| lots of soba
and udon dishes here. it is quite possible that is all
they serve here, but given my rudimentary japanese and
non-existent kanji reading skills, i have no idea. :P |
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| one of the
few picture menus i encountered in tokyo. generally
speaking, be prepared
to read kana and kanji when eating in tokyo! |
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| oolong tea (uuron-cha)
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| the finished product! |
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