Shopping in Shinjuku and chill time!

We ducked out to Shinjuku for the afternoon to go check out a book off store. Book off is like a secondhand shop but for nerds, so it's got like, 4 floors of used electronics, DVDs, video games and anime stuff. I am keeping an eye out for Serena stuff and came across all the glass protected Pokemon cards. I thought I was done for, as I finally found her but she was over $100 for a single card (apparently it was a rare kind and they only had 1), but then I discovered an area with thousands of them all just free and scrambled. I absolutely dug through the trenches of thousands of Pokemon cards but eventually I found her and managed to Clemont and Shauna as well (for anyone unaffiliated, these are characters out of a specific series of Pokemon aka the best series), and I got Serena's Pokemon Fennekin in a soft toy for $9 (a score given any new Pokemon plushie merch is like $40-60). I'm thinking I'll keep an eye out anytime we go to nerd shops to see if I can find as many of the characters as I can.

Then I headed back for some downtime whilst Michael continued to shop looking for specific niche camera gear stuff, before I headed out for some dinner locally. It was so funny because Michael ended up getting dinner out on his way home, and when we exchanged pics, we were eating a similar vibe meal bahahahahahaha! Great minds or something like that. I had pork katsudon as a half serve and with a prawn as well. Michael ended up having gyukatsu, which is crumbed like my pork but it's rare beef that you then cook at the table. He said it was scrumptious, as was my food!

The food here... When it hits, it really hits. It's all in the little details. Like, the mayo for the prawns had a little extra unique flavour to it, the crumb was fresh and crisp, and the pork oozed juices so it melted in the mouth.

I also had a delicious matcha ice cream with a half serve of canele in pistachio and salted caramel and again... So good! Strong matcha flavour, and the caramelisation and crunch on the outside of the canele... My god!

We have had a great time in Tokyo and now it's time to say goodbye until the end of our trip, with us heading off into the coldest part of our trip... Nagano!Læs mere