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.

Karaoke!!!

At Sunday we went to Harajuku. It was really crowded. Quite obvious since it was Sunday.

We went around in a few shops, and after a while we met up with Hide outside Laforet. We went shopping for a while, then headed to Shinjuku to some gaming centres to play games, and then ended up in a very good izakaya. We at first ordered a big jug of beer, but got a regular sized beer. As they realized their misunderstanding, we got a regular beer plus the big beer for the same price as one. Very good service. We also ordered some tasty sidedishes, which were surprisingly good!

At last we went to Karaoke around midnight, and also paid for nomihodai (to drink alcoholic beverages as much you want, 'til 5 in the morning!)
We had an awesome time together. And yeah, I actually sung. Horribly offtune. Still.... awesome night together.
Cheers, Hide!

Today we slept all day. At least 'til about 7 in the evening. Rebecca, me and Malin went for a walk around Musashi-seki.

Video from Namco Namja Town

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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Yesterday in Shinjuku

We went shopping with Hide & Tsuyoshi.

Plans were to go to the beach today, but cause of rainy weather it was cancelled. Anyway, we went shopping. It was warm weather, but I guess I am getting more and more used to it, so it was fine.

At evening we went to a restaurant and ate some food. I ate some decent tonkatsu.
We had a fun time together. Today we will probably go to Ginza & Ebisu.

Video from Tanabata and Tokyo Tower

Namco Namja Town etc

On Tuesday I just relaxed.

While Rebecca and Malin went to Shinjuku I just stayed at the guesthouse and relaxed. I went to the konbini and bought some different kind of bottled ice coffee's and tried these, and spent a long time by the computer. Maybe stupid of me, but I needed to relax for one day to get more energy for the rest of the week.
At evening we went to the izakaya nearby us, and ate a little.

Today we went to Ikebukoro and met up with Hide and Tsuyoshi. We had a great time together! We went to the Namco Namja Town in the Sunshine City shopping complex. It had different kind of attractions and themed dining places and stuff. Fun things like different kind of ice cream with all weird kind of flavors! Also a haunted house, which actually werent that very scary... but I got scared anyway cause I'm so easily scared.

The gyoza part of Namja Town was awesome. You could buy all kind of variations of gyoza. I picked the cheese & corn gyoza's. I guess people wont get surprised, as I love cheese. It was good! Malin, Rebecca & Tsuyoshi picked teriyaki flavored gyoza. These were really good! I don't remember the name of the gyoza that Hide ordered. It looked good though.

At last we went to a type of izakaya or something, with Italian food. It was very inexpensive, and very very tasty. I will for sure go there if I go to Ikebukoro some more time.