Japan - Day 6 - Tokyo

Okay, it's our final day in Osaka, which means it's our final day in this hotel room, which also means, this is our last free breakfast. We get dressed and head down to the buffet area and do the same thing that we've done the past few days. Say hello to the lovely receptionist, get seated at our tables, make our own miso soup, eat cereal with yogurt, have fresh orange juice squeezing contests, etc.

We check out, pay our bills, hop on the train back to Tokyo. Not much happens again. Once we arrive in Tokyo, we make our way to our final hotel Tokyo Bay.
I walk up to the female receptionist, say konichiwa and inform her that I'm checking in, she says sure and hands me a brief form to fill out, I fill it out, and hand it back to her, along with my million dollar smile. She says okay and informs me of my room where abouts. No joy, maybe that smile only works on guys.

Steve and I head on up to the room with the bags in hand. We had to leave Ly behind since we only registered this room with two guests and from our Osaka hotel experience, they had someone show us up to our room, and we didn't want to run the risk of getting caught.
We drop the bags off, I go back down to grab Ly and we do the usual, take several snapshots of the room before it gets messed up. After a quick refreshing break, we head on out to Akihabara. This area of the town is known for electronics and manga, they have high rise buildings with department store after department store. Once we get there our first stop as usual is a food place, hey we're in Japan, we're allowed to pig out! We come across a place that's serving Tonkatsu, my favourite! So we head there and eat.
After that it was the Sony building, where they had a whole bunch of.....Sony products on display to let people view and if you're crazy enough, purchase. We explore the building for a while, but nothing really exciting.
We enter a few of the electronic stores and a few of the manga stores, since none of us are big manga fans, nothing really excites us, not even the hentai located in the basement levels of each of the manga stores. We even went into a 9-story Toy Store, one of the most popular ones in Japan, but we didn't really see anything that held our interest for longer than a minute.
I read in my Lonely Planet book that here in Akihabara they have cafes where the wait staff dress up in their favourite anime costume and serve you, we tried to find them, but couldn't, although we did see a whole bunch of girls dressed up in costumes handing out flyers to passing locals, but they ignored us gaijins, we can only imagine what they were offering.

After Electric City, we moved onwards to Ginza, a 4-chome intersection lined with high end department stores and prestigous boutiques. Now we're talking! If you're rich and famous, or if you have lots of money to spend, or if you're a Yakuza wife, then you'll be spending most of your time shopping here.

According to the Lonely Planet book a few years ago each square feet of Ginza, where the high end shops are located is valued at $5,500 US.



On this street, you name it, they have it. Cartier, Gucci, LV, etc. In fact this strip is so ballin that they have not one but two! count 'em two Tiffany & Co's.



After that, just dinner. No crazy stories here.