Sept 4 - Half Moon Run

I'm back at the hotel for a quick stop on the way to dinner (which will be an ambling walk through Akihabara if all goes well), so in the interest of saving time, here's the rundown from today.

• 3:30 - wake up, go to Tsukiji, find out we're too late to get into the tuna auction (even though we were there around 4am and it doesn't even start until 5:30), go back to the hotel and go to bed.
• 8:30 - wake up and go back to Tsukiji for breakfast. Eat a big uni. Wait in line for an hour and eat delicious sushi.

Time starts getting hazy here because alarms were no longer involved, so we'll just do the bullets without the times.

• Walk through Ginza, stop at 12 storey Uniqlo. Lizzy bought things, I somehow didn't.
• Eat zarusoba at Tokyo station. This is my favorite thing.
• Buy lots of Japanese whiskey at Tokyo station at a shop we were recommended to go to by the bar owner last night. I got 3 bottles and 3 mini bottles. Lizzy got 3 bottles. We have to figure out how to get it back into China now...
• Take a walk through Yanaka, this old timey part of north Tokyo. Lots of temples there. Like, lots and lots. So many. It's nuts. But I love it. I can't get enough of temples. We also had a coffee in a Brazilian cafe, then we had a beer at an awesome local beerhall, which was in an old timey building, and which served local craft brews. Fantastic.

Now we're back at the hotel. Next up is the walk to dinner then a fun night of Izakaya drinking and eating times with my Japanese friends (and the like 5 other friends who just so happen to be here in Tokyo at the moment). I have high hopes for the evening.

And now music. It's Call Me In The Afternoon, by Half Moon Run. Great song. I listened to this album this week after not listening for a long time. It's not as good as I remember, actually just mediocre, but their good songs are really fucking good. But Call Me In The Afternoon is the best.