東京! Tokyo! Part 2

So, went back into Tokyo on the Sunday (after running into a rather odd international food fair in a Tsukuba car-park...shame we'd just had a whole load of Cake for breakfast) with Mei and Naru.

Headed to Akihabara first off (wandered around the Yodobashi Camera store there; SOMEHOW Tokyo's one is EVEN BIGGER than Osaka's... Paul said he thought it was a sports stadium when he first saw it...Yodobashi Camera is a bit like Curry's/Dixon's by the way, just 10000000x better...). Oh, and we met up with Paul (久しぶり) and went for a wander around the place. There's a Gundam cafe there, but it had just opened and the queues were around the block so we didn't go in...

Paul left us and we headed over to Nihonbashi where we sort of accidentally walked into a MASSIVE festival at Asakusa Temple.

It's a bit embarrassing to admit it, but the reason I particularly wanted to go to Nihonbashi was because I watched this Japanese detective drama (新参者) set there which featured these little sweet/cake things called 人形焼き (Ningyouyaki- Grilled dolls) and I wanted to try some... Yes, Japan has made me ludicrously to susceptible to suggestion... and food in general...

They were actually really tasty! Unfortunately 黒木メイサ was not hanging around outside the shop... shame...

Found some rather bizarre snack there as well, rather vaguely called "Osaka-yaki"... turned out to be pretty much perfectly normal Okonomiyaki, just in pie form... not bad actually...

Met up again with Paul, Louise and Fifi for dinner in Shibuya (Rendezvous at Hachiko no less! I somewhat predictably got horrendously lost in Shibuya station on the way...) where we went for Shabu-Shabu :-P

Had to leave midday on Monday, but I took a quick trip to Ginza on my own before I left. I'm pretty much certain I walked past Yumiko (Bham exchange student from last year) there... she seemed to recognize me... didn't say anything, but then again, not sure what we would have to talk about these days...