{"id":23917,"date":"2014-06-30T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=23917"},"modified":"2014-07-05T23:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T04:05:57","slug":"tokyo-day-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=23917","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Tokyo Day 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woke up today to rain, oh, and no hangover!!<\/p>\n

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\nIt was raining kind of hard, and we have leaky umbrellas so we put on our waterproof jackets and also brought our umbrellas.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, let’s try a new entrance to Shinjuku station.<\/p>\n

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\nWe are looking for lunch. There are tons of malls around here, there’s gotta be a food court somewhere here.<\/p>\n

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\nThis whole area underground is like a giant maze. It took us forever to just find this escalator to take us to one of the upper floors to the food court.<\/p>\n

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\nUgh!!! They are all sitting on stools outside because every restaurant has a long line…Screw this, we’ll just eat later.<\/p>\n

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\nManaged to find our way back into the actual train station.<\/p>\n

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\nHeading across town to Asakusa.<\/p>\n

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\nRL is getting upset with me for taking photos of her on the train. As I was sitting across from her taking photos, this other lady sitting just a few seats from me gave me a confused and disgusted look. I guess she didn’t know that we are together…<\/p>\n

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\nNow, we transfer from train to subway.<\/p>\n

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\nEasy breezy.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s raining, but not too hard. These jackets are a terrible idea today. It’s humid and hot, in the low 80s out here. Sweating up a storm.<\/p>\n

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\nStill looking for lunch…but no luck yet.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Kaminarimon(Thunder Gate) that leads up to Sensoji temple. There are a lot of tourists here, and it’s quite crowded. People are also very aggressive with their umbrellas…by people, I mean mainly Chinese tourists. They are everywhere here, again, being their rude self. Sometimes I feel bad for spewing out so much general hate for Chinese tourists…but, really, every time someone bumps into us, or almost jabs our eyes out with an umbrella, it’s always a Chinese tourist.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s hot, we had to take off our jackets and just use our umbrellas. It’s crowded, I just want to get out of here. I am getting hangry.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, been there done that, let’s get out of here.<\/p>\n

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\nTokyo Skytree.<\/p>\n

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\nOn the way out from the side of the temple, we see a parking lot full of tour buses…no wonder there are so many aggressive tourists here.<\/p>\n

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\nEscaped to this quiet side street.<\/p>\n

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\nIs it me or does that look like a child coming out of a vagina? Hah.<\/p>\n

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\nWhy is there a water bottle in here, and are those small eels?<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the very few monks that we’ve seen in Japan. As many temples as they have here in Japan, there are not many monks.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, found this place to eat. Hungry, let’s do this!<\/p>\n

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\nIs it me, or does that look amazing? You can be jealous, it was amazing. It was only like $8 for one of these bowls!!!<\/p>\n

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\nChicken!!!<\/p>\n

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\nFish!!!!<\/p>\n

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\nKL!!!<\/p>\n

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\nAhhh, after that satisfying meal, it’s time for some cold sweets.<\/p>\n

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\nGreen tea gelato. This was actually the best green tea ice cream(yes, I know gelato isn’t ice cream) that we’ve had. It was amazing!<\/p>\n

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\nBack on the subway…damn, should have gotten more gelato. It was soooo good!!<\/p>\n

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\nInteresting escalator. It goes up, then flattens out, then goes up again.<\/p>\n

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\nA street of shops.<\/p>\n

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\nHoly shit!! $50 for a single durian. I don’t remember how much durians were back in SE Asia, but they must have been cheap because everyone, including the poor, ate them.<\/p>\n

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\nMangosteen!!!! $5 for 6 little ones. Sigh, I miss SE Asia.<\/p>\n

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\nStill craving ice cream. Green tea ice cream at a green tea shop, gotta try this.<\/p>\n

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\nGood, but still bested by the green tea gelato.<\/p>\n

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\nAll sorts of different teas here. I know nothing about teas.<\/p>\n

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\nFish eggs.<\/p>\n

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\nMugwort eh.<\/p>\n

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\nThen out of no where, there were a few golf shops.<\/p>\n

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\nAt the end, there was a giant Uniqlo.<\/p>\n

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\nHad to check out this giant Uniqlo.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a very familiar view for husbands and boyfriends\u2013the floor in front of the bench just outside the fitting room.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, we are heading back. We are done for the day. We’ve got a lot of time here in Tokyo, so we are trying to slow things down and not do too much each day.<\/p>\n

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\nBack to Shinjuku station. Let’s see if we can figure out a way to stay underground and take the exit closest to our hotel.<\/p>\n

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\nNot sure what’s going on there…but there are three nude women.<\/p>\n

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\nShit!!! Not gonna lie, both RL and I combined together, we are pretty good at finding our way. But despite our best efforts to find our exit, we somehow ended up on the other side of the tracks. I think there are exit numbers for the subway line, and exit numbers for the train station, and many of those numbers overlap. Oh…and there’s also the exit numbers for the ‘other’ subway line…and the ‘other’ train companies.<\/p>\n

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\nFound another giant Uniqlo here.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, that’s Kabukicho, so now we are getting close to our hotel.<\/p>\n

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\nJust add an “a”.<\/p>\n

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\nJapanese Only. Japan is pretty fucking awesome, but it can also be pretty fucking discriminatory.<\/p>\n

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\nKabukicho during the day time.<\/p>\n

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\nWent back to the hotel and caught up on blogging and what not until dinner time. It’s still raining.<\/p>\n

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\nWe went into the basement of a nearby mall to stay out of the rain and to find some food.<\/p>\n

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\nNot really restaurants here, but just a bunch of booths that sells really expensive dessert and snack gift boxes.<\/p>\n

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\nI wonder how many people eat prosciutto without knowing that they are eating slices of uncooked aged pork leg and that it starts out looking like this.<\/p>\n

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\nSince we couldn’t find anything in the basement of the mall, we were forced to come back up to the street to look for something to eat…I mean…there are literally thousands of places to eat around here, we are just being picky. We now run into the issue of having way too many choices, so we can’t decide.<\/p>\n

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\nLook at the size of the Uniqlo. RL loves Uniqlo.<\/p>\n

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\nWait…I like Kirin beers. Let’s go eat here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>15 minute wait.\u00a0 Well, a wait means a lot of other people want to eat here so that’s a good sign.<\/p>\n

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\nIsn’t it funny how Budweiser is more expensive than most beers here because it’s an import.<\/p>\n

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\nRL has been on a fish and chips kick lately.<\/p>\n

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\nAh, delicious Japanese beef.<\/p>\n

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\nHalf and half. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

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\nWho knew, Kirin also brews cider. Here it’s spelled “cidre”.<\/p>\n

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\nWe really enjoyed our time here, especially since we are sitting inside dry while it’s still raining outside. It’s a crowded pub and we were the only foreigners here. The Japanese guy and girl who sat next to us on the bar seemed like they were on their first date, so we spent all night observing to see if the guy was making progress. He’s a shoe in.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, got our stomachs filled with food and some beer, time to head back.<\/p>\n

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\nBut not before RL came to a screeching halt by this crepe shop.<\/p>\n

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\nCheesecake and ice cream inside the crepe, genius!! and also very, very good!<\/p>\n

To be continued at Tokyo Day 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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