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quick update.
Nov. 21st, 2010 12:27 pmI'm currently sitting in a cat cafe. A really neat little place that looks like someone's apartment and is full of cats. It's $12 an hour and the drinks and cookies are free and you can play with the cats and use the internet and watch tv as much as you want while you are here. It's pretty cool.
There are a dozen cats. It's good for people who love cats but don't or can't have one of their own.
So yesterday I took the train to Tokyo with Sam, Chelsea and Susan. We got to Ueno and spent the morning at the zoo. The zoo is so big that we didn't even get to see half of it before we had to leave to get the train to Mitaka so that we could go to the Ghibli Museum. We got Mitaka and wandered around a bit and found this beautiful park. We walked through the park and I got some nice pictures. It's the end of November and it's still rather warm and the trees are just starting to change colours now. Today I'm not even wearing my sweater...
After the park we went to our 4:00 tour at the Ghibli museum. We got to watch a short movie and then we had free reign of the place to explore at our leisure. There were 3 floors and an outside garden and restaurant and stuff on the roof. It was really amazing. The walls were covered in conceptual drawings from all the different movies. We went up an old iron spiral staircase to the roof and there was a big robot from the Movie Laputa. I took so many pictures this weekend.
After the museum we got our bags from the lockers at the station and took off to find our hostel in Asakusa. We stayed at the Sakura Hotel and we had a 2 bunk room. These bunks were much more comfortable than the ones at the Sakura hotel in Ikebukuro. anyway, we dropped our bags off at the hotel and went out to see the new Harry Potter movie in Ikebukuro. The movie started at 9 and we didn't get out of there until 11:35. We got lucky and caught the last subway train back to Asakusa. Any later and we would have had to take a taxi.
Despite the wonderful beds, I didn't get to sleep until after 4am do to snoring....and I was up a few times to go to the bathroom...which was outside (litterally) and down the hall. lol So today I'm tired. First stop today is the Cat cafe, next will be lunch I think, then we are going back to Ueno park so I can go to the museum of science, technology and nature where they have the wonderful, amazing Theatre 360! I can't wait to go back! After that we will probably head home.
We still have 30 minutes left in our visit at the cat cafe, so I will go annoy some cats now. lol
I really miss living in Tokyo. Iwaki is nice, but it's so small and slow in comparison. I always have a good time in Tokyo.
There are a dozen cats. It's good for people who love cats but don't or can't have one of their own.
So yesterday I took the train to Tokyo with Sam, Chelsea and Susan. We got to Ueno and spent the morning at the zoo. The zoo is so big that we didn't even get to see half of it before we had to leave to get the train to Mitaka so that we could go to the Ghibli Museum. We got Mitaka and wandered around a bit and found this beautiful park. We walked through the park and I got some nice pictures. It's the end of November and it's still rather warm and the trees are just starting to change colours now. Today I'm not even wearing my sweater...
After the park we went to our 4:00 tour at the Ghibli museum. We got to watch a short movie and then we had free reign of the place to explore at our leisure. There were 3 floors and an outside garden and restaurant and stuff on the roof. It was really amazing. The walls were covered in conceptual drawings from all the different movies. We went up an old iron spiral staircase to the roof and there was a big robot from the Movie Laputa. I took so many pictures this weekend.
After the museum we got our bags from the lockers at the station and took off to find our hostel in Asakusa. We stayed at the Sakura Hotel and we had a 2 bunk room. These bunks were much more comfortable than the ones at the Sakura hotel in Ikebukuro. anyway, we dropped our bags off at the hotel and went out to see the new Harry Potter movie in Ikebukuro. The movie started at 9 and we didn't get out of there until 11:35. We got lucky and caught the last subway train back to Asakusa. Any later and we would have had to take a taxi.
Despite the wonderful beds, I didn't get to sleep until after 4am do to snoring....and I was up a few times to go to the bathroom...which was outside (litterally) and down the hall. lol So today I'm tired. First stop today is the Cat cafe, next will be lunch I think, then we are going back to Ueno park so I can go to the museum of science, technology and nature where they have the wonderful, amazing Theatre 360! I can't wait to go back! After that we will probably head home.
We still have 30 minutes left in our visit at the cat cafe, so I will go annoy some cats now. lol
I really miss living in Tokyo. Iwaki is nice, but it's so small and slow in comparison. I always have a good time in Tokyo.
