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| Tokyo lit up at night (photo by TravellingFool.com) |
We made it to Tokyo in one piece. Thankfully our Shinkansen was stopping off at Shinagawa where our hostel was located so we were able to save a bit of time getting there.
Going from the station to the hostel was difficult since we got out on the wrong side of the station. Then we got there only to see that reception was closed until four. We decided to start exploring and dropped our luggage then headed back to the train station.
We got off at Shibuya and were suddenly swarmed with crowds. There are few other occasions in my life that I have been surrounded by that many people. Even trying to see what was around us was hard. We tried going into a mall for food only to find an hour wait. It wasn't until we snaked our way back to the train station that we were able to find something to eat. It was good and cheap but salty as the dead sea. The portions of water were barely a mouthful. I felt tired and defeated by this part of town. We eventually just headed back to the hostel and drop off our things, but not before buying ginormous waters.
The manager of the hostel was pleasant and the accommodations are at the bare minimum but the location is pretty good. There was a mysterious third person in our room who arrived late that evening and left before we woke up.
Before long we were on the road again, this time to find dinner and a bar Jordan had read about. The bar was called albatross and was suppose to be located in a place called piss alley. Even on the website they claim to have just installed toilets.
We stopped off at a super chuchi steak house-ish place bear the train station in Shinagawa. There we had great sake and a four course meal that included some pickled fish, sashimi, Kobe beef shabu shabu and green tea ice cream. The beef was out of this world and worth every penny.
Stuffed and slightly poorer we got on the Yamanote line headed to Shinjuku. We got off the train and without a smartphone got hopelessly lost. It took us an hour to find a usable map and realize that we were totally in the wrong direction for the bar. It was getting late and since we still weren't sure where it was it was better to move on to the next thing. Jordan figured while we were here we might as well try to find the worlds busiest intersection. We found a lot of people and some tall neon buildings but no intersection. Jordan thought it was labelled on the map as time square and I was unsure of everything, the direction, the place, if we would ever find it. We did find a Dominos delivery person and asked him pointing to the map. He directed us back to the train station and it was then that I realized that Times Square is a store and the intersection was in Shibuya not Shinjuku.
We laughed about it most of the way home.
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