Beating the arcade at it's own game

Today we decided to have a bit of a break from sight-seeing and headed to an arcade instead. Once again we walked there and back. It was only a few blocks before we found ourselves at our first arcade. Here we played a pirate shooting game, where we defended against hordes of skeletons. Awesome game! Then I saw a grab machine with a cute pink bunny rabbit that I had to have. I thought 'why not, let's give it a go' and surprisingly on the third and final play it flipped over the shelf and was all mine. Our second arcade toy win! To savour the victory we broke for some lunch, at a place we ate the other night, and a bit of shopping. We also treated ourselves to a joint ice cream on our day of no sight-seeing. Then we moved on and found another arcade, which was huge, spread over several floors and full of so many different games. We had an explore and on the first floor there was a host of sweet machines. Nick noticed a group of teenage boys excitedly surrounding one of the machines and went to watch; a stack of boxed sweets had fallen and they were filling their pockets. They were so concentrated on their own machines that they hadn't noticed other sweets falling from other ones. When Nick returned later he noticed the sweets were still there. Free sweets! Whoop. We headed up and found our favourite floor, the floor where you play slot machine style games with token coins. We like to walk around and collect any coins we see on the floor, under machines or left on the counter to use. Usually this results in about 3 coins and a couple of 1 yen coins but boy were we in for a treat! We collected so many of these coins it was amazing. The photograph was taken also before we found at least another 15! When you pay 1100 yen for 300 coins (just under £8) we were laughing. We then spent a good half an hour or so playing on a particular slot machine and actually doing rather well. As always the coins run out but it felt great that we got to play the machines for free. We had planned to come back and pack our bags before heading to the castle near back to watch the illumination of cherry blossom tress but unfortunately the rain has stopped us from venturing out again. It's looking like a lazy evening of watching YouTube and chilling out.Read more