Japan Adventure Hunter

I have been here almost two weeks now and I have gone to many places that I will list below:

This is quite a large park where people walk or eat lunch. There are many events held here and is seems like every time I go through that area I see tents set up with vendors.

There was one vendor in particular that caught my eye because they sell childrens puzzles and some toys. I want to get the little fish toy that you put inside a water bottle and add a fake plant and BOOM baby! You now have your own desktop aquarium.

I went with my old friends Kei, Kazuto, Toshiaki and Taiki to this really amazing but expensive restaurant for a welcome to Japan party. It was really great food, I just wish I could read Japanese and I would tell you the name of the restaurant.
Kazuto and I have also been to a couple other restaurants, the latest being a yakiniku style restaurant. The food was really amazing!

This area of Tokyo is really high class it seems, with designer stores lining the streets and rancy restaurants.

I have not dared to enter one of the stores yet because I am afraid if I sneeze or cough they will charge me 6,000 yen for the offense. Too high fashion for my blood.

This is a tourist type area with a lot of flashy lights and people handing out fliers and trying to get you to enter their stores.
There are many comic and game shops in this area and I see many younger people here.
This area also attracts the punk rockers and other various styles.
I bought some MTG cards here because they are 1 - 3 dollars cheaper than America.
There is a store called Don Quixote that has 8 floors each with various and quite randomly placed items. It is a must see if you are here for an extended visit and need supplies.

I rode the train a few times if I must, but I do not like to be touched and smashed into a train car so I walk almost everywhere as long as it is within an hour's walking distance.

This place requires a map, and even with a map I got lost and gave up and went outside and called a taxi.
I did take the shinkansen to Niigata and then an express densha to Tsuruoka to see the mountains and the coast.

I did not spend a lot of time here. I bought some udon miso and walked around outside of Niigata station.
The city is a dingy kind of color, like a layer of dirt is coating every building.

This is a small city with a lot of farming. The country feel is awesome and the coast was great!
I went to an Onsen just off the coast at a hotel. It was very nice and relaxing.

That is it for now. Upcoming events I am planning are:

Thursday, March 27, 2014