Day Four

Today we went to Roppongi (Tokyo Midtown) to see the Tokyo Tower, we got there using the subway, which by the way to get anywhere in Tokyo, & saw that they were charging an entrance fee & decided that our money could be better spent (the observation deck isn't even as high as the TMG building) so we took a few pictures of it from the base, which look pretty cool, & bought some 'really thin pancakes' filled with bananas & whipped cream. After that we took the subway to Ueno, which, probably because it was Sunday, was rather ghostly. Not many shops were open & even fewer restaurants. We decided to walk around a lot...Oh, I forgot to say we also went to Akihabara, the electric city, not very impressive, most things are not very cheap (as they were promised). They did, however, have some cool cell phones though. OK, so we walked around Ueno for awhile & decided to go back to Ikebukuro for lunch, really good stand-up sushi & to drink some beer. The second part was more difficult than we thought. The pubs were closed, but oh well, we got the sushi. We then took the subway to the far souutheast side of Tokyo to see the port, but we mostly just walked around the area off the last stop on the Y-line. Oh well, we then just headed back to Nerima, which took a long time. When we got back home, we rested until dinner (at the house) at which I got to try some very expensive Chinese white wine (moonshine 56% a/v). It tasted and felt like lighter fluid. After dinner (at which I drank several beers) i was pretty tired & kinda drunk, but I needed to pack because we were to leave at 5 for the airport.