Dinner with Friends

The past couple of days have been a lot of fun; we spent Thursday in Nakano, where there's a big pedestrian mall-thing called Sun Plaza. We've been there before, and will likely go there again, because there are several stores full of manga, figures, and even anime cels! It rained for most of the day, but we still managed to enjoy ourselves.

We ran around Akihabara in the evening, which accomplished nothing, though I did get to visit my favorite store, Super Potato. The rain was making us miserable at that point, so we didn't bother buying anything.

Friday was spent hanging out with Kari's caricature artist friends, all of whom were awesome. We had lunch with Kage Nakanishi, who runs Caricature Japan, and then walked around the shrines and temples of Asakusa.

In the evening, we met up with Tomo Tabata and some other friends at Tokyo Tower, and then headed over to an izakaya for dinner. Everyone was great, and we had a fantastic time. I kind of felt like crap when we got back to the hotel, but it eventually passed.

We've got plenty of pictures to share, but no way of doing so. I was hoping to find an SD card adapter for the iPad somewhere, but haven't had any luck yet. We'll keep looking, though.

Once again, there's nothing good on TV.

Arrival and What-not

So here we are, safe and sound in Tokyo. The hotel is very nice, though not in the most beautiful area of Ueno. Our first night (we got in around 8pm) was spent procuring food and searching for a new GPS receiver for my PSP, which we've yet to find at a decent price.

We spent the day today at Tokyo Disneyland, which is pretty much what you'd expect: rides, characters, and lots of people who don't watch where they're walking. Still, we had a great time, and got some really nice footage of the Halloween parade.

Our posting ability is somewhat limited, since all we brought are our phones and an iPad. Blogger's editor uses an editable IFrame, which doesn't work on the iPad. So I'm typing this on my phone, which isn't super fun.

The TV gets about 10 channels, and the only thing good on right now is the hotel menu's music. Time for bed, I think.