Saturday

A source tells me that shochu gives bad hangovers. As mentioned before, they may be quite right. I slept till around 5 pm to escape from the hangovers, heat and humidity.

After I get up first over of business is to get some noodles. I'm currently exploring variations of Ramen and get this nice result.

The "soup" in the top is for dipping the noodles. It has beef taste, is salty and enormously good with hangovers. The cook got an "ooisho" from me and was professionally thankful.

Next I had to pay my bill at the bar from yesterday. The new bartender, Kaori, did not understand me very well, but after a bit of patience I was told that the bar opened an hour later. She also posed with the "denki branka" (meaning Electric Brandy?), that is also suspected to be the source of my hangovers yesterday.




Next I went seeing Shibuya that is famous for it's big pedestrian intersection and nightlife. It's mostly shopping which i don't care much for, but at least they are creative with the stores. When you have a normal pink girlish clothing store, why not just throw in a jetplane with that?


I also met a family that was in need for assistance in taking group pictures. Turns out that it was a doctor from china on a four year research position in japan. Nice for him. He though that I should have a picture together with the family. Voila


You can also rent cafes for private arrangements. I accidentally crashed this private party. Crossing your arm in front of you appears to mean "wrong" in japan :)


In the big square next to the train station I learn about japanese etiquette. Smoking is forbidden, outside. Here is the cage for the smokers