Today was a free day, so we were let out of the cage to do whatever we felt like today! After totally not sleeping in, I met up with a few friends to go get crepes before heading over to Character Street just by Tokyo Station! Along the way, I also got my first ever kebab. Quite ironic that my first one was in Japan, but nonetheless, tasted GREAT!

Character street was MASSIVE, with so many franchises and tons more that just screamed kawaii. There was even another Snoopy store! Personally, I was more there to follow the others and see what there was. Luckily, there was a Pokemon center, yet STILL NO GENGAR! Despair. The saga continues.

After coming back from the outing, I was curious to see what was around Akihabara, so I roamed the streets for a little while longer before heading back to the hotel. More Don Quijote, Mandarake, the Radio Kaikan, and some absurdly huge game centers. But overall, since I’m not a huge shopping guy, I never found myself sinking too much money into anything. Nevertheless, such a crazy atmosphere to walk around in!

I also tried the famed Mister Donut brand at a nearby place. Turns out those mochi donuts RULE! Will definitely be getting them more. Glazed was also very soft delicious.

After crashing in bed for around 2 hours (walking and sightseeing for >6 hours a day is cruel on your legs), I went out for dinner with a few other friends at a sushi place called Ginzo. Now this place had a great vibe to it, and it was going SO great initially! I was able to write everyone’s orders in Japanese on the paper the chopsticks came in, only for my hopes to be dashed by the restaurant seemingly forgetting about us for about a whole hour. I managed to flag down the server and figure things out, but overall that was my first experience handling that sort of thing. Put a damper on how well it was going, but oh well! As the Japanese put it, しょうがない.

Since our mood was a bit hampered, we went over to get a small little treat from a different donut place. I couldn’t resist more donuts, so I got a nice sugary one. Turns out there was a promotion which had galaxy-looking frosting on some of them! They looked really interesting.

Finally, we went to the Yodobashi shopping street, where, you’ll never guess this:

GENGAR PLUSHIE

I was completely overjoyed. 3 Pokemon centers multiple secondhand stores with no luck, and it ends up a hop skip and a few escalator rides right next to our hotel? World is cruel, man, haha.

The place we found it at was a trip. A mix of so much it was insane. There was even what I like to call a tripod forest.

Since the night was still young, and Karaoke was closing too early to really have a lot of fun, we decided to have a movie night in our hotel! Luckily, we could hook the computers up the TV. Since it was thematically relevant, we decided on the Netflix movie Bullet Train! It was fun being able to point out all the accuracies and inaccuracies in the movie.

In terms of a movie review? Very entertaining! Fast paced, rather gory, but very hilarious. I would recommend it if you’re looking for some absolutely insane entertainment.

It was a great time being able to gather a bunch of peeps over to watch something. This group’s been a pleasure to be in! In the end, I was pretty tired, so I hit the hay. On to tomorrow!