Blogs from Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, Asia - page 6

I checked the time on my phone 23:48pm. Why am I always so early to meet people? I sighed deeply and turned the music up on my I Pod in an attempt to fight of my boredom and avoid the irritating noise of the white girl screaming "Oh my god!" nearby and walking around the hachiko statue importantly with her group of gaijin friends. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked to my right. A young asian man was smiling at me and saying something. I removed my earphones and asked him what he wanted. "Hello" he said, and smiled. Oh god, I thought to myself, one of those. But then I looked at the clock again and realised I still had 12 minutes to kill before meeting up with the girls so decided ... read more

Last year I did not experience too much of the Tokyo nightlife...so this year, I aimed to see what Tokyo had to offer once the sun set... Night One Met up with my friend Yana from my Japanese class in London and two of her friends. Drinking first at an English pub, Kelvin and I were very much hoping that they served actual pints, which they did but at ridiculously expensive prices. The glass sizes for beer in Japan are so small...I think it may be about them not being able to handle as much alcohol? This is what my Japanese friend told me anyway. Still, it is not fair and completely rubbing it in when you get your beer with a massive head on it... Finished the night at a horror themed izakaya called the ... read more

The clock struck 12 as I ran down the escalator. Finally!! I could see her! Niske and I had just spent 45 minutes urgently roaming about Shibuya station trying to find each other whilst having conversations that went like this: "Where are you?" "I'm at the east exit to Mark City" "Yes, but which number? I'm at exit 8a" "There are no numbers here, are you in the east exit?" " I don't know, it doesn't say, it only has numbers" " But there are no numbers here, are you near the Ikeiroski line?" and so on and so on. Finally when we met each other, the first thing we did was to compare each others outfits to similar outfits that other, very famous people, had previously worn. We then re-named ourselves accordingly, so from now ... read more

After we came back from Nikko we met up with another group of people from Kansai Gaidai. I had never really hung out with any of them, but they were all very nice people and I knew them from around school...oh yeah, and they were all SPANISH! Everyone except this one guy was from a Spanish-speaking country...Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico, Chile. The only problem with that was that they spoke in Spanish all the time. I studied Spanish in high-school but there was no way I could understand everything they said. Michael at least knew some more Spanish because of his background, but I found it very difficult and at times frustrating not being able to understand what they were talking about. Of course they didn't speak in Spanish the entire time, they would sometimes use English, ... read more

Eftersom vi kom hem runt 7 så gick vi inte upp förrän 13-tiden. Fixade oss, gick till Lotteria (hamburgerkedja) och åt frukost. Därefter direkt till Yoyogi-parken idag. På söndagarna brukar lite extra mycket j-rock-folk och cosplayers samlas där. Även mimare, yankees och annat pack så en stor del av tiden gick till åt att titta på sådana. Och på skolflickor i nästintill obefintliga kjolar såklart. Då och då kom det även fram japaner och ville fotas med mig och David, vi såg väl skumma ut. Efter det blev det lite shoppande. I en affär hittade jag en röd tröja med ett stort svart hakkors på. I Japan har den inte så stor betydelse men... ja, att gå med en sån i västvärlden skulle vara lika med självmord. Har för övrigt köpt en hel del saker som ... read more