Karaoke, food and underground bra shops

We couldn't really leave Japan without a karaoke night, so that's exactly what we did. After a few minutes of working out how the machine worked and scraping together a playlist, which was an eclectic mix of ABBA, Edith Piaf, The Doors, Marley, and so on, we got fully into the spirit if this Japanese night out that has captured the world.

The kids put a lot into their singing without any need for alcohol. Flo and I did, however, make use of the all you can drink for $14 offer. Can't imagine such an offer in Europe not leading to chaos.

We had intended before that to eat street food, but that was frustrated by the fact that you can't eat street food whilst standing or walking! You must sit on one of the 6-8 seats each stall has. Queues are long, and so the chance of getting 6 free seats was zero. Oh well, the frites at the karaoke went down well.

At the start of the evening, we had walked into town, and we stumbled across yet another underground city. This one had two streets each 1.2km long, filled with all sorts of shops. This place was brand new and very tastefully decorated. It was also very quiet compared to Osaka or Sapporo. What better place than to shop for a much needed new bra? So we did look for the needle in a haystack of a C/D cup in Japan. In 3 shops. One, yes one, was found and promptly purchased.Read more