I am sitting here on the Shinkansen heading towards Nagasaki (well Shin-Kobe as that is where I change trains) travelling at about 260-270 KPH (161-168 MPH) in my green class car and on the free Wi-Fi which is again awesome!!!!
31st July – Exploring a Bit of Tokyo
On the day I wasn’t feeling the best so to be honest I condensed it down a fair bit as a headache in the middle of Tokyo isn’t something you want to be living with, although the local pharmacy was very helpful.
First thing that I did was go to a place that I had watched on a show called “Paul Hollywood Eats Japan” and during his travels all around Japan in search of good food, he went to this restaurant.
This Restaurant is called Nakiryu Ramen and only has 14 seats, but there was a constant queue outside the shop from when I got in after 1 hours wait (from 10:30-11:30) till when I left (just after 12). The Ramen was the best if not some of the best food I have ever had, honestly, I cannot recommend this place enough and it is a Michelin star restaurant in Tokyo. Now just to compare I got a bowl of Ramen, Chicken Gyoza and apple Juice which cost me about £13-14. Whereas in London I got a smaller bowl of ramen, fried chicken and a drink for about £26! There is just no comparison.
Next place I went to was Shibuya when made me reminiscent of playing Persona 5 Royal, in fact I might play it again. It has the famous Shibuya Scramble which you may have seen in some films.
As well as this I went up the Shibuya Sky Tower 45 floors about Tokyo, it was well worth it especially as I was able to see all over Tokyo.
Now in a little note I would like to point out that I did get a little lost at Shibuya and it isn’t called the 2nd busiest station in Tokyo for nothing. It is basically a major train station (3-4 lines), subway station for about 3-4 lines and has an underground mall and everywhere I looked I couldn’t find the line I was looking for (I could find all the others though, figures, right?). Luckily google translate and helpful people helped this Gaijin get to where he needed to go.
1st August – Tokyo DisneySea
So, this was the day I originally didn’t have anything planned for apart from maybe a beach trip. I am now glad that I didn’t do that as we had rain, thunder and lightning for about 2 hours. Funnily enough the first ride I went one was called the aqua hoppers, and it had the “get Soaked” version active that day, but why did they have to activate the “get extra soaked” version by turning on the rain 😅
Now one good thing for me was that both Indiana Jones and Raging Spirits had 3 Lines. 1 Normal line, 2 Priority Access Line and 3 Single Rider Line. Yes, there was a line that prioritised being a single rider which was awesome for me.
The park was open till 9pm at night which was also good and they had a fireworks/parade on that was packed so I just got in some more rides instead before the park closed, although the bits of it that I could hear and see (as I passed it twice). It did look good.
Next time will be me in Nagasaki. Hope you all enjoy these blogs as well. Till next time!!!
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