Day 13 - Last Full Day in Tokyo!

Last full Day and Now The Sun Decides to show its face!

After the debacle of yesterday the Spy is feeling a lot better today thank you 😌 So off we go into Tokyo, just for a walk around really, it is so lovely to enjoy the city in the sunshine, so different to what we have experienced over the last couple of weeks.

Find our way to a place called Don Quixote, we remembered it from last time, it is a cross between a supermarket, souvenir place, kids toy shop, sports shop, off license and sex shop. An hilarious jumble and completely in your face. Here are some of the more adult things on sale, we didn't get any in case you were wondering!

 

Did buy some bags of Kit Kats though (strawberry, green tea, raspberry, dark chocolate, crème brulee, Yokohama's Limited Edition, that kind of thing) the most popular chocolate in Japan, Tokyo has a Kit Kat flagship store, and each area of the city seems to have its own special flavour.

Saw another lost in translation advert on the Metro today... no idea what this is all about.

And another couple of awesome Metro signs, one which is obvious, but funny.

And one I only noticed today, which I presume only applies to Neo from The Matrix (sorry it is blurred, it is only available as you are going up or down escalators).

Had lunch at the most awesome Teddy's Bigger Burgers over near Harajuku (an Hawaiian chain don't you know!) we both remember having our first meal in Tokyo there when we were here two years ago after 23 hours of flights (don't ask) and a spot of light shopping. It didn't disappoint, the most delicious tender burger, fries, fried chicken and a chicken terriyaki burger and fries for the husband.

My last post on this blog is going to be a lessons learnt, and one of them Ilya reminded me of today is, although the transport system is quite clear to work out, navigating round the stations when walking can take a while, as they cover such a great distance, for instance, this is the map for Shibuya station and the area it covers.

And its 16 exits!

Right, I have written this ahead of our last night of this awesome adventure, we are off to find the concept Amazon Bar, where apparently they tailor a drink according to questions you answer on a survey, we saw it last week and it only opened this week for 10 days... might go for some more oom pah pah too. Laters taters...

…some time later, well, the next day, at the airport.

Awesome last night, like our greatest hits of Tokyo... left the hotel, into a beautiful evening, clear sky and the sun going down.

Headed towards the Amazon Bar, however there was a queue around the block.

A note on queuing... You think we love it in the UK, over here it seems to be all some people do, they are so patient, sometimes you see (what I am sure are not really superfluous) queues in the street, forming a really long line which breaks at a pedestrian crossing, for instance, and then carries on after that, when they are able to, the lovely folks move across the gap to patiently stay in the queue further down the street. We really should have asked what they were waiting for, it seemed so random!

Back to last night shenanigans... we headed to our favourite Oom Pah Pah place, the Ginza Lion Sapporo Beer Hall, unfortunately we hadn't eaten yet so didn't try one of these beauties.

But we did have a lovely couple of beers.

Then off to our Korean place for a delicious barbecue dinner (it was so tasty last time we stumbled upon it!).

Unfortunately they were busy, and we initially thought they were being really rude, until the girl who so kindly looked after us last time recognised us and came over with a great welcome, explained they were currently packed out and would we possibly be able to come back in a couple of hours? Of course, not a problem, a few more drinks on empty stomachs will be fine...

So off we tottered, and remembered a place which was almost round the corner, Bar High Five... the 13^th best bar in the world, with the 12^th best cocktail maker, apparently.

We have a little history with this place, tried to find it two years ago, couldn't. Tried earlier this adventure... it was closed. However tonight it was open and it was like all our cocktail dreams come true. I mean, how can you go wrong with all these spirits?

There is no drinks menu, they ask you some questions, like what flavours you prefer, base spirit, shape of glass that kind of thing, so we were saying things like yuzu with a vodka base, want something which tastes like Christmas.

So good.

3 cocktails later, we head off for dinner at Cobau, and because we were a little tipsy, we didn't really savour it, we were done in 40 minutes! But it was so damned good. Melt in the mouth meat, delicious salads, kimchi, bibimbap (rice, veg and egg in a stone bowl which is so hot it cooks the ingredients, apart from the rice obviously). We were sat there which such smiles on our faces. Like a couple of pigs in... well you get the idea.

We got them to call back to the cocktail place to warn them we were returning (they don't take reservations, but did say they would save us a couple of good seats if we rang a bit ahead) and headed back for a nightcap... or two.

Ilya chose something which sounded so gay, amaretto, floral bitters with no citrus, and he said it was like heaven in a glass.

Watched him trying several times to take this photo.

The last for this part of this blog...

...Apart from this one he took in a taxi in Hiroshima, as he was obsessed with the doily style seat covers

Off to board now, I will add in photos and upload this when I get home, it is all ready, just need to pack up.

Home safe by the way :).