Saturday, August 1, 2009

Japan trip day 9: Tokyo (July 24th, 2009)

(Friday)

Made train reservations for the trip to Kyoto. Bought a memory card for the digital camera and a power supply for Nintendo DS at BIC Camera. Dan went back to the hotel. At lunch at a Japanese fast food restaurant. I had to buy a ticket describing the meal from a vending machine, then sat around a counter. I gave the ticket to the waiter who was standing behind the counter. The food arrived in a sizzling hot pan. The food kept cooking in the pan while we were eating. It was pretty good. Then went to Shibuya 109 store with Shirley and Rena. Shirley was looking for clothes for her, and Rena was frustrated that she could not buy anything for herself.

I took Shirley to see a Kabuki play at the Kabukiza theatre. We arrived a few minutes before the show started (at 4pm). There were no tickets to the current show. We were asked to wait until 6:30pm for the next show. Shirley did not want to wait, so we took the subway to Kappabashi-dori, which is Japan's largest wholesale area for cookware and restaurant supplies. I wanted to buy a few realistic plastic food models. Shirley suffered from the heat, so we entered the first shop with air conditioning that carried a large selection of plastic foods. We bought a bunch of bananas, an orange, an apple, corn on the cob, and two doughnuts. Everything looked realistic.

Bought cold drinks from a vending machine on the way back to the hotel. The machine had sample green tea bottle on display. It said that it has 12 different harbs and 4 different tea leaves. I could not stop chuckling.

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