Summary of the weekend

Friday was actually a calm, lazy day for us, as we just went to Shinjuku at the evening. Quite obvious, thinking about the all-nighter the night before..

On Saturday it was Rebecca's birthday! We planned to meet Sente & Vanessa in Asakusa at the huge Hanabi. We were unlucky, cause the phones stopped working so we couldn't find each other. Such a shame. The news said that there were estimated 2 million people there during the evening. Crazy.

Well, later home in Machida we went with Amanda & Kentaro to a nearby bar. We had a really nice time together! Some delicious dishes served with the beer. Lovely :P.

Yesterday, Sunday, we went to Yokohama! We went to the beach in Zushi and spent most of our day there with Hide & Tsuyoshi. Actually I didn't swim at all, I just sat at the beach and drank some alcoholic beverages. Haha, I enjoyed it. The view was beautiful!

We pulled an all-nighter once again. This time in Yokohama, at a Karaoke place. So fun! I will for sure miss Japan alot. But it's not over yet. Not yet..

Later I will upload alot of video clips. There are many new ones, and a few older ones I forgot to upload.

Weekend!

Yeah, weekend was awesome.
On Saturday at about 5 pm we met up with Ringo at Anguk station (I think?). Cecilia was a bit late so we strolled around a little in the rain, and also went to a HUGE music instrument store. Kinda interesting!
























At last Cecilia arrived, and we went to eat cold noodles.
For me, cold noodles is nothing new; but still this was new to me as it was served with ice cubes - ice-cold noodles! Wow. Pretty tasty! We then went to gaming centre for a while and then ended up taking purikura, which was alot of fun.
We also took a visit to Baskins-Robbins for some icecream.










































At evening we went to Hongdae to drink and have fun.
At first we ate at KFC. Wow, seems like there was no salt in my french fries, and there were no salt to find at all in the restaurant. Kinda sucked, but oh well. We ended up at HO-bar, some bar that seemed good, with alot of foreigners in it. Well, the waitress (or whatever) at that place was kinda rude so we left pretty early. It turned out to be nothing more than.. well.. a ho-bar.

At last we found a good Korean bar! It was in izakaya-style, and we had a fun night together; eating and drinking. It was so cheap too! About.. 5000 won each, which is about... 34 Swedish kronor, or about 380-400 Japanese yen. We ordered a big jug of beer, alot of different dishes and a bottle of sake.

















































On Sunday we went around Myongdong, looked around in a few stores and also went to a huge combined book & music store.
Before that we ate a good breakfast at Mr Pizza.
I found alot of interesting CD's, even though I didn't buy anything. Maybe I should've bought a Nell album. It would've been worth it. Oh well, I can go back there someday.... or maybe not? Already on Wednesday we will go back to Japan.

Dongdaemun

Today we went shopping with Hyunjung at Dongdaemun.

It was raining like crazy, still I enjoyed the weather as it wasnt as hot as usual.

In Dongdaemun it was so many different small clothing shops everywhere in many different buildings with alot of floors. I found some nice T-shirts that I bought. I am glad Hyunjung were nice to help us with talking to the sellers, as it's common that foreigners get tricked into paying too much.
Quite funny how everyone thought I was Japanese. Yeah, fashion is very different here than from Japan. Still you can find really nice things for very cheap prices!

We ate some really good food at a restaurant. So delicious. For my first time I drank Korean beer (Cass). Not much of a taste experience, but very easy to drink and to get drunk at.
I also today tried gimbap for the first time. Surprisingly good!

Tonight we are eventually going clubbing, or maybe just relax at the guesthouse. Tomorrow we are going to meet Cecilia and Ringo. It will be lots and lots of fun! Looking forward to it.

South Korea

Me and Rebecca are finally in South Korea now.

We arrived at Incheon Airport about 9 pm yesterday (Wednesday). It feels... undescribable.. very strange. It took about two hours 'til we arrived to the guesthouse here in Mapo-gu in Seoul. It's a very nice, big guesthouse with lots of other guests from different parts of the world.

Today we met the worker at Social Welfare Society who helped me get in contact with my biological mother. She was a very nice person, and even treated us a good meal at an excellent bulgogi restaurant.

At evening, after taking a nap, we met up with Cecilia & Hyunjung with her boyfriend. It was very fun. Actually I have been talking with Cecilia & Hyunjung for about 4 years online, so finally we got to meet each other in real life.
We went to a good, inexpensive bar; drank and had fun.
After that Cecilia, me and Rebecca went around to look in alot of shops in the area (Hongdae), and ended up in Starbucks after a while cause of me getting hungry.

Machida!!

So it was the last day of our stay in the guesthouse in Musashi-seki. I will miss that place. Almost felt like home..

We went with all our luggage to Machida. It was quite a trouble since it was so crowded at some places. Shibuya were very crowded.. as usual.

Well, finally we are here in Machida at Ken & Amanda's place. Tomorrow Rebecca and me are leaving to go to South Korea. We will stay there for a week; then head back to Japan for one more week.

Not sure if I will update my blog tomorrow, but we'll see.

Sayonara, Musashi-seki.

Shabu-shabu

Yesterday we met Kentaro & Amanda.

We went to eat Shabu-shabu tabehodai at a restaurant. It was delicious. The meat was really good and tender. There were three different types of dipping sauces; soy based sauce, miso based sauce & sesame based sauce. I think I preferred the sesame one, as I thought soy was too salty, and miso too spicy.

After that we ended up in a really good izakaya, with really cheap prices. We ordered some beverages and sidedishes & had a fun time together.

Ebisu & Ginza

We went to Ebisu garden yesterday.

Really beautiful place, so I took alot of photos. It's a beer museum at that place, with free entrance. It was interesting. Especially fun was it to try different kinds of their beer (by a cost of 500 yen). Their original lager type of beer, a type of weissbier, an ale and their dark beer. I'm not sure which one I prefered, but I liked their ale.

After that we went to downtown Ebisu, and found a very good Ramen restaurant. Very tasty!

We also took a short visit to Ginza. Lots of expensive brand shops and stuff, but also cheap brands like H&M or Uniqlo. We took a visit to Princess Heart, some sort of theme-based cafe.

After that we went to Shinjuku to go to the Dining Bee bar. Very expensive place, but it was ok anyway.

Today we will meet up with Kentaro & Amanda, and go eat Shabu-shabu tabehodai (eat-as-much-you-want).

I will upload videos soon.

Photos. in wrong order.
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