Shibuya Crossing & Golden Gai

After another stop at the capsule toy machines on the way into town, we went to see Shibuya Crossing, the busiest crosswalk in the world. Crazy to see so many people! Especially after being in the South Pacific for two and a half months lol.

We found a building next to it with a window where you could get a good view for free of the crossing. There also happened to be a store full of capsule toy machines there haha. And a record store where I bought a couple records for ¥100 each! We’ll see how they sound when I get home haha

After some more sushi for lunch, we took the train to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings, which have an observatory on the 45th floor which you can get to for free! Way better than paying an arm and a leg for Tokyo Skytree lol. And nice to get a vantage point of the whole city. We had to wait in line for a while so missed sunset but nice to see the city all lit up at night

After that we went to get a drink or two in Shinjuku Golden Gai, a small neighbourhood of tiny tiny bars that seat 6 to 8 people each, sometimes less. This was definitely a Tokyo bucket list item for me and was so awesome to see and experience.
Some of the bars have a seating fee and some don’t, and there are some that are open to tourists and some that are members only. We went to a pretty tourist heavy one at first and got a drink each, before walking around to find a quieter smaller one with less rambunctious American tourists lol.
We ended up finding this really cute gin bar, called Kangaroo Court Decision, with only a ¥500 cover. We sat at a table before moving to the bar counter when there was room. The whole place fit max 6 people but it was awesome, every type of gin imaginable crammed into the tiny room. The bartender, Go, had heard of Empress gin but didn’t have any unfortunately. Met a few other people drinking there, including a fellow Canadian from Toronto, and had a couple drinks each. Not super cheap but a super awesome experience!

Now to train an hour back to the Airbnb and packing things up as we check out tmr!Read more