Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Roppongi.

So today was especially heinous weather, super cold and raining non stop but it actually turned out to be a nice break from how hot and stuffy it has been. We headed into Roppongi after we finally found an ATM, as we were running out of cash and had to settle for Ritz crackers and vegemite for dinner last night. So we found our way into Roppongi and finally had our first decent meal however it wasnt Japanese. We went to Bagel and Bagel and had awesome bagels, iced tea and muffins for lunch!! Felt so much better afterwards. We continued to wander in the rain and found an awesome WW2 bomb site which was made into a small Japanese garden and shrine, got some rad photos. We stumbled upon Roppongi Hills where there was another nice Japanese garden as well as a statue that looked exactly like the Spider Beast you fight in Gears of War. Found some cool buildings around the area and a MASSIVE cemetery that went on for miles. Took us about an hour just to walk through it and the tombstones looked amazing, some of them were really huge. We made our way back to Shinjuku and had a quick look around but we still need to go back and have a proper look. Scored ourselves a free umbrella, aaaalright. Going to hit up Tokyo and Ueno tomorrow to visit the Zoo and some more temples and shrines.

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