Saturday, August 11, 2012

Day 4 - Ginza

We woke up late and missed breakfast and ended up leaving the hotel after midday.

Our big thing to do today was Ginza. We knew, after finding ourselves there last night, that it wasn't too far to walk. Fuyu had his tablet hooked up to satellites to use the GPS jsut so we wouldn't get lost on our way :'D
We found the Triforce!
We didn't quite know we were there until we saw the very unique street lights that line the main street. We were very hungry and wanted to find somewhere to eat but I was very unsure of a lot of the places. Fuyu and I ended up walking around Ginza for a very long time (even navigating a very large and fancy department store) before we found somewhere to eat; we both had katsudon, Fuyu with a miso soup and salad as a side (that we shared) and me with a side of cold udon noodles.
A Department Store in Ginza
After eating we felt a lot better and headed out once again. I had picked a better outfit and thus wasn't feeling as hot and bothered!
We wandered around for awhile longer and found a book store that also had a bag/wallet/thing store and a few galleries. I bought a small activity/puzzle/game book and a few flip animation books (we've got to go back because one of them I picked up was the wrong one, I still like the one I got but I really liked one of the others too :'D)!
The Bookstore/Department Store where I got a couple of books
On the way back we passed a sweet shop and bought... a few things :'D
Lots of sweeties and snacks
After that we left and found our way back to the hotel on our own (well, with the tablet :P)

We did some laundry and organised a time for the hotel staff to change our sheets tomorrow and just relaxed. It started to get really late. I wasn't too hungry but Fuyu was getting really hungry. He held out as long as he could :'D
Fuyu looked up pizza places (it was either that, Sukiya again or Konbini food) and found a Pizza Hut and Dominos close by. By the time we got our act together it was too late for Pizza Hut so we walked to Dominos. We worked out that the new pair of Converse shoes I have are a size too small for me, not just new like we thought. I've been suffering from blisters and very sore feet :'D So tonight I wore my boots for the first time... SO COMFY :'D

We found the Dominos, it was very different. It wasn't a shop front exactly. There was a garage section out front and a small sliding glass ordering window. We ordered a couple of pizzas (margherita for me and american special aka pepperoni for Fuyu)... pizzas are very expensive in Japan. Two pizzas cost us 2800 yen :'D

Fuyu and I picked up our pizzas about 10 minutes later and walked back to the hotel... the pizzas smelt so good :'D Bakc in our room we opened the boxes to reveal two pizzas that looked exactly like the menu photos and tasted... just... so good! There is NO REASON WHY DOMINOS IN AUSTRALIA AND ALL OTHER PIZZA PLACES ARE SO BAD.

NO EXCUSE. AT ALL.

For the rest of the night we just chilled... it's just gone 3AM and we're listening to 'Because I Got High' and watching the Freestyle Wrestling at the Olympics on the TV... bahahaha :'D

2 comments:

  1. Was the very large and fancy department store you found named Mitsukoshi perchance? I ask cause I spent a bit of time in there lost on my first day in Ginza after getting of the subway :)

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    1. I'm actually not sure what it was called, but it had two entrances and the floor you entered on was perfume and make-up and bags, food stalls on the next one down and there were 5 restaurants on the bottom floor. It was all beige marble floors and bright lights, Myers on crack :P

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