2nd/3rd Feb

2^nd Feb

The day started with me helping Guy organise his accommodation from the 13^th until he leaves Japan. He decided to stay at Tokyo Annex where I will be staying on the 4^th and the 5^th. From there we left to go to Akihabara, and we walked from Ueno station where I left by luggage in a locker for 500 yen. We started by looking at the side street adjacent to the rail line. I found a pair of Timberlands at a lower price than mine in NZ, damn!  From there we walked all through Akiba, finding a Saizeriya to eat at. With a nomihoudai(all you can drink) we certainly filled ourselves up from drinking.  From 6pm I left him to go to Nihombashi to find my accommodation, and after walking for an hour and checking maps, I couldn’t find it, causing a dilemma. From then onwards, I went back to Ueno to pick up my luggage, then walked to the other side of Ueno park to find myself a motel, which I found for a higher price than I wished, but good considering the location. By this time it was around 8pm. I splurged that night on some cold sweets as that day was rather warm. It’s been really warm in Tokyo, considering its winter at the moment; I’ve been walking around in my cardigan and having to take it off on the subway and all of Akihabara even late into the night. Not what I was expecting from a Japanese winter, but Sapporo will certainly live up to my expectations of a cold winter. A friend Hikari posted a picture on Facebook of the snow in Aomori, which was piled higher than her, so over 1.5m! I’ll certainly need a down jacket and maybe some long johns.

3^rd Feb

So after waking up and having diarrhea, I checked out sometime after 10am. I then proceeded to head over to Khaosan Ninja and dropped of my luggage there, my feet are still so sore from walking around Akihabara yesterday and at 7pm, nothing has changed. It’s mainly the tendons and ligaments in my big toe that are so sore, I will be changing shoes from tomorrow. Speaking of shoes, I bought myself a pair of Timberlands from NZ for 300 dollars, and here I find the same pair in Japan for 19,000 yen, which is cheaper! I also found a pair of similar boots selling for 4000 yen in Ueno along the street running adjacent to the JR line, too bad I didn’t buy it. I spend from 1pm in Harajuku, looking at Takeshita Dori and the shops to the left once you get to the main lights at the end, after seeing that prices for haircuts were 6,300- yen plus, it got me thinking whether Elle in Komagome was still open or not, since that was my local barber during my high school exchange. I found the place was still running to my delight, and the staffs were still just as friendly, I also recognized a face of one of the employees there. I initially asked for a haircut, and when they were washing my hair, they asked if I would like a shampoo treatment, which I thought why not, since I’m in Japan. Because of that, I talked to the female stylist who cut my hair to my Mohawk style and found out that it snowed last week in Tokyo and that she also wants to travel but she’s limited by her lack of English.  The shampoo treatment was very nice; a different female staff member swapped over with the stylist. She started with shampooing my hair, and proceeded into a head and shoulder massage which was so good, I think I’m going to try that on Arisa when we stay together  ; )  
so on my way back to Ninja I stopped over at a LAWSON and bought myself dinner that I cooked up back at the youth hostel . I bought a pack of sausages, some soba and mushrooms which I fried up in some olive oil and added parsley and coriander to. I also microwaved some gyoza and had Kirin beer as my drink of choice. total of about 1300 calories includin the beer and pudding. Surprisingly they didn’t bother checking for ID since you have to be 20+ to buy alcohol in Japan. it's only 8pm at the moment, just chilling and finishing off my beer, I'll end with  pudding then a shower and sleep, something which i've been lackign in and since i'm drinking tomorrow, i'll need plenty tonight.