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First things first - we got out of that smelly hotel and checked into the Century Southern Tower hotel in Shinjuku. Very classy place. This is not a great picture, but it's the view out of the lobby. |
| Time to see the city. |
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She suburb of Nakameguro is supposed to have some of the best shopping in town for ladies. We didn't find anything but we took a few random pictures. |
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| Quite often, between the tall buildings, we'd see a little shrine. |
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No trip to Tokyo is complete without a visit to the geek Mecca of Akihabara Electric Town, so that's where we went next. You can really find all the latest electronic gizmos here. I bought See Ming an extra 1Gb memory card for her camera. (She shall be needing it tomorrow). |
| I also offered to buy her some new clothes but she declined. |
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A whole building selling nothing but Anime paraphernalia. We're going in. |
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| For the Mecha (giant robot) modeller, all kinds of accessories in insane levels of detail are available here. |
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You can also find all sorts of hands, feet, and internal joints to pimp out your model. |
| Our next stop was R/C Champ - famous for having the lowest prices on the Internet for all Japanese radio-controlled model kits and accessories. We'll take a look inside but we don't necessarily have to buy anything. |
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Yeah right! See that basket I'm holding? You can pick one up as you walk in the door. The prices are so low here, chances are you'll need two baskets. |
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TN Racing's aftermarket carbon fibre chassis for Tamiya's TA-05 touring car. 15750 Yen. |
| We had dinner at a yakiniku-ya called Yakiniku Sakai. It was sort of like Korean-style barbecue. The beef was delicious. For the rest of the trip, we pretty much spent almost every meal looking for yakiniku-yas. |
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This is the lounge area of an Internet cafe. |
| See Ming clearing off one weeks worth of spam. We had a private little cubicle to ourselves. 300 Yen bought us half an hour on two computer terminals. We had to wait a few minutes for the guy to set the keyboards to English. |
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Time to head back to the hotel. This is the view out of the train. This could be anywhere in Tokyo. |
| Our hotel room. |
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What I bought today. |
| Day 7 (part 2) <<< | >>> Day 9 (part 1): Yoyogi Park |
