September

It has been a month filled with late nights. This month had two 3 day weekends. The first one was spent in Tokyo when my friend came to visit. This coincided with Alice's friend from home too, so we spent most of our time together. Tokyo is a different experience every time I go. We did so much walking, went to huge parks, such as Yoyogi in Harajuku, famous for the Goth dressers(right picture). We saw the Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi park. It was quite breath taking, and wrote wishes on wooden plaque and hung them on the frame circling a huge tree.
We walked around Ueno park, this was huge, there were shrines to see, museums and even a zoo in there. Then we walked around the Imperial Palace (centre picture) area and the water fountain features in Tokyo. It was all good, apart from my feet.

Our nights out involved a fair bi of walking too, aswell as dancing in 'womb' where the night ended at 5am for the first train home.

We went to an Izakaya in Shinjuku. Rieko had booked a place for 2 hours of all you can drink. We had to be there for 7pm, but Alice had arranged for everyone to meet at 6.30pm at the South Exit at Shinjuku station. However, Alice was the last to arrive, because she went to the wrong exit. Well, give her some credit, Shinjuku is the biggest train station in the world. Luckily we made it on time to the venue. Then later moved on to the 'hub', a British chain pub in Tokyo.

A good station to be at in the night, or anytime, is Shinjuku at the big crossing. Its just amazing to see a huge crowd appear every minute to cross the road... and the disappear, and then watch it all over again.... and again....