Guess Who's in Tokyo?

Wednesday brought us another visitor from home... the world famous dj Justin Mile. After initiating him to the crazyness of Shibuya, we took him out on Friday to Shinjuku to try and find some crazy wackness to laugh at. We headed to a club for a 'para-para' dancing party, where all the young freaks go to dance in unison, however the party actually started at 6am that morning so it was finished long before we arrived. So stuck in Shinjuku without a plan, I thought it was a good opportunity to finally go to the infamous 'Ni-Chome' gay area. It is basically the only real gay area in Tokyo so I thought it was worth a look.

Turns out it is much tamer than I expected, you could probably walk through and not realise what is was. There were a few rainbow flags and inside one shop they sold gay manga which was quite interesting. So we went to a bar that Eri's gay friend recommended, to our suprise it was pretty quiet and the dudes looked the same as most Japanese guys perhaps even slightly more masculine. After a drink we decided to go bowling, which turned out to be good fun. I took out the first game by 2 pins (too bad Juz) and on the second game the skill level deteriorated to joke bowls such as through-the-legs or run-down-the-whole-lane.

Saturday arvo we walked around the super funky Shimokitazawa and then feasted on all-you-can eat Shabu Shabu. Sunday was a cultural day where we took in a French art exhibition at the crazy new Art Center in Roppongi (the building more impressive than the exhibitions), then went to the arty Super Deluxe for an art magazine event which included videos, djs and a live performance which was interesting. Basically a dude was in a huge box and he would push the box around the room in sync with a video that was being projected onto the screens. It was interesting for a little while but it got old pretty quickly. Then me & Eri went to a quirky Chinese restaurant for some shredded duck with Chinese bread, dumplings & stir-fried vegetables; god damn was it delicious! Super cheap too less than $10 each. Which capped off another stellar weekend. Only 4 more to go until I get out of here, there sure will be plenty to miss.