Back to Tokyo

Definitely into overtime in Japan now and we spent the last week of our now more than two months in Japan just living for a bit. We didn't have any pressure to do anything in particular, so stayed in an apartment in East Tokyo and relaxed, caught up on various projects, and did a bit of planning for the next stages of the trip.

We still got out and did a fair bit - Elli learned Zazen meditation and narrowly avoided being whacked with a stick; we went to a maid cafe, which was 80% western tourists and 20% young otaku men taking their awkward looking parents; and to a concert with idol groups (the hyper commercially produced girl groups who enchant their otaku audiences with costumes and high voices - perhaps the weirdest thing was the almost completely male audience who all waved their glowsticks in sync).

We got a lot more practice of rhythm games in the arcade and had our final meals of favourite Japanese food, including another outstanding kaitenzushi place and some top tier okonomoyaki.

It felt quite a wretch to finally leave after 9 weeks and 6 days but we feel like we have become part of the furniture and it is definitely time to move on.Weiterlesen