The City That Never Sleeps

For our last Saturday night abroad we made sure to live it up as best we could. Because we had been to Roppongi the last two days, we decided it was time to give Shibuya a try. The night started out like most other nights...with a sushi dinner. I think my favorite kind of sushi is now toro, which is fatty tuna. Sounds gross, tastes great.

In Shibuya we went to an English pub called hub. I liked hub a lot, but I would say the only similarities between an English pup and hub, is that the both serve beer. But the drinks were cheap, and we met these three Japanese guys, who really liked practicing their English with us. The bought some beer, so we of course let them practice all they wanted. One in particular named Shu was loving hanging out with us and he asked if he could come out and translate for us. And since no one in Japan speaks much English we gladly accepted his invitation. Jed said he read about a little lounge that played good music, so we headed to a place called Womb.

As soon as we got to Womb we all realized this was not some little lounge, this was the most popular club in Tokyo. It cost 4000Y to get in, but went in we did. We met some Brits in line, and they told us there was some super famous DJ playing tonight, so we were in for a treat. It ended up being a really great night! The DJ was named Magda, and she played nothing but hard trance, and house, which was a welcome break to all the hip-hop we've been hearing. We had fun dancing the night away, talked or attempted to talk to many Japanese girls, and drank a enough to make the night fly by. Around 4:40 we figured we had had enough, and got to see the sun come up for the third day in the row.

Needless to say it was not easy to wake up this morning. After hitting snooze plenty of times we made it up, got some breakfast, and headed to Harajuku for some people watching, especially to see the infamous "Harujuku girls". It was kind of neat, all these younger girls in the craziest costumes, most of the wore Gothic nurse outfits, or Victorian maid outfits. Besides the "Harajuku girls" there were also the "Rockabillies" which were basically Japanese guys dressed as greasers dancing to rock and roll. Yes kind of weird. I think Japanese culture is just too cute for words.

After Harajuku we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. For our last night aboard we got a traditional Japanese dinner, where you had to take your shoes off. It was a good dinner. I think its a safe bet to say we ate pretty well this trip.

Now were back at the hotel, packing, and getting ready for the 13 hours ride home tomorrow afternoon. Wrap up post to follow soon!