So the day was slightly overcast so I decided that I would take a walk to the Sunshine City and find me some sunshiney fun times. Sunshine City is a City within a building located in Ikebukuro. As I walked down the street towards the building all I could smell was popcorn, you know that shits got real when you smell popcorn.
Obviously this little guy isnt happy to be in the sunshine city
Japanese love all things cute and cuddly and this has caused the inception of the kitty cafes. The concept is a room full of cats that just are hanging around doing cat things and you can go and hang out with them and have pats. Pretty sure that these cats were all drugged and overfed because they were really fat and slow and in the 45 minutes that I was there I think I saw about two cats get up and walk around. Not that I am complaining, I dont like it when they run away from me. I was going to try and steal the fluffy white Kitteh for Holly (who pointed me in the right direction for this Kitty Cafe. Thanks you Miss Schmolly) so that Suki would have a friends but they caught me. No Kittys for me :(
Pat, Pat, Pat, SQUEEZE!!!
Back in the day the Sunshine building was the tallest building in Tokyo, it has now been surpassed by the Tokyo Sky Tree. The Sunshine sky deck still operates and to get up to the top you take a lift that goes 600 mtrs/sec. When you step into the lift, the lady shuts the door and all the lights turn off and you step into a blue light disco. The walls of the elevator are covered in the constalations and the roof is full of stars. All it needs is the dirty porn music and you have yourself a party. I stepped out of the lift to lots of smiling and nodding and was herded to the left where there was a ticket gate. For me Japan is like a game of Russian Roulette, seeing I cant read whats going on I just smile, nod and point at something and hope that I get something good. Todays lucky dip was a ticket to the observatory deck and the Aquarium. Roulette win one!!! From the Skydeck you can see out into all directions of Tokyo, sadly for me it was pretty smoggy so the full affect was hard to see but still none the less, concrete jungle ahoy.
Welcome to my Disco
I can call my ma from up here "Hey Ma!"
The Sunshine City is made up of four buildings, the Sunshine 60 (where the skydeck is), The Prince Hotel (Hotel and shoppping complex), The World Import Mart Building (Aquarium and Planetarium) and the Bunka Kaiken Building on the far end. After my trip up the sky tower I headed over to the Worl Import Mart Building to go to the Aquarium. It is the worlds highest altitude Aquarium being on the 10th floor of the building. God damn it was packed and pretty sure I was the only Gaijin in there. I wasnt able to get close to many of the exhibits but I guess when you see one fish you have seen all the fish. I did manage to get a balla spot to watch the seals performing though. One of them blew bubbles out his nose, even I cant do that. Hmmm so does this mean a seal is more talented than I am? interesting concept.
Yep the seal is wearing a camels head....
And I always got into trouble for sticking things in my nose
I got my ticket for the planetarium and a bit of time to kill before I had to go in so decided to wander around the shops, I happened to stumble across a boy band taking fan photos. Its a band called Smash, apparently they are a big deal from all the screaming and squarking that was going on from the teenage girls that were hanging around. I like how the Japanese a no nonsence, they made a line, ran to sit down, got there shot, nodded and then ran off, I think they were churning out about 4 girls a minute. I guess now I know how I looked like when I met Suffa and Pressure, kinda all dazed and gushy. and you know what I am cool with that.
This is Smash, they are big in Japan - Apparently
At 4.15 I walked back up the the Planetarium and pretended I knew what was going on when the lady was giving directions. Pro tip, if you dont know whats going on, look around and follow everyone else. We had to line up in groups of 4 and were then ushered into our seats. For those of you who havent been to a planetarium before its a giant dome screen and you lie down to watch it and the picture goes into the dome and gives you a full 3D picture, pretty cool. The only problem is that you are lying down, and there are pretty stars above you and this can make you sleepy. Clearly, ask the girls that were sitting on either side of me as a few minutes in they both were happily snoring away (maybe I will take the time to admit that I may have nodded off for a second or two) Even though I had no idea what they were saying it was still really nice to look at. I think I will head along to one at home when I get the chance cause atleast I can understand whats happening.
Planetarium Projector
I headed back to the hotel to the find the boys drinking cheap whiskey (and I mean cheap, like $12 a bottle cheap) and getting rowdy, and it didnt take much convincing to get them to come to Roppongi with me. For those that dont know Roppongi is the dodgy dodgy night club district. Think Northbridge but 10 times more seedy. It is filled with Nigerians that try to get you to come to their bars, American Military guys and lots and lots of drunk Japanese Business men. It is hands down my most favourite place to go out. There is a place on the main strip called Gas Panic, Its a dodgy upstairs bar thats super crowded, very loud and smokey and amazingly awesome. Thursday night is 300 Yen Night, so every drink is about $4.05, there is no cover charge and you can stay as long as you have a drink in your hand. And thats really the end of the story, what happens in Roppongi, stays in Roppongi, well except for Roppongi Jesus, he is everywhere
Love and Ground Shaking
Miss K
P.S We also went through our first Earth Quake today, strangest feeling. I thought it was Kev bumping my chair but really it was the ground shaking. I plan to use it as a pick up line next time we go out "So did you feel the earth shaking before? I can rock your world way more" then proceed for some face rape or the like. Its a guarenteed winner. Now I am to scared to use the toilet, what if there is a big quake and I am stuck on the toilet, that would be shitty (only slight pun intended)
Totoro!!!!
Your Mate, Clearly
The Real Story
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