Kareoke in Tokyo with Yoshi

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Japanese youth culture is most obvious and easy to access in Tokyo, and especially easy when you have a friend who lives there! My old uni friend Yoshi met me one evening and took me for a Japanese BBQ where we even tried puffer fish ovary (?!?) before going to a typically Japanese kareoke booth! Everyone knows I can't sing at all, but nor can the Japanese, but they still love it.

As well as this in Tokyo, there are whole districts dominated by Manga and Anime - Japanese cartoons with themes covering pretty much everything in life, and in areas such as Ikebukuro and Akehabara there are maid and butler bars where the staff are dressed as Anime characters, Manga-kissa shops where you can pay for a reclining chair for a night and have a constant supply of magazines and cartoons, and the streets are filled with people in Manga-style fancy dress.

Here are some pictures from the kareoke... and also of the capsule hotel I stayed in while I was in Tokyo.

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Comments

[sherma]

Capsule hotel
Hi! Would you please tell me the name and location of the capsule hotel where you stayed in Tokyo. Thank you!

[KatrinaJames]

Capsule hotel
Hello Sherma! Its called waterfront capsule hotel, its 2700 Yen a night and its near asakusa station on the asakusa and ginza lines. There is a shared onsen baths on the top floor and free internet and a common room on the second floor. Get off the subway at Asakusa and you will see a bridge over the river. Don't cross the bridge, just take the road from here going along the river, you cant miss it. Have fun! x