5th August 2019
Booked flights to leave Tokyo on the 7th August, flying to South Korea. Mostly due to the fact it’s the cheapest place to fly to after Japan. And also booked tickets from South Korea to Taiwan on the 16th.
Harry and I felt our first earthquake today! Never felt one before and this was quite big, 6.2 on the Richtor scale. Apparently a standard event for the people of Japan.
Today we decided was the day to find an all-you-can eat sushi restaurant! I should probably have learnt to avoid all you can eats after last time, however, the sound of unlimited sushi was a deal not to be missed.
We googled some restaurants, many costing around 5000 Yen for the all you can eat. One was only 4000 as it was for up and coming trainee sushi chefs. So we thought that would be the one to choose. Supposed to have bookings 2 days in advance, and the website stops you booking, luckily Google have their own booking feature and going through that allowed us to book a table the table day.
We went to the Kangurazaka Sushi Academy. Fortunately, they accepted our sketchy Google booking, so we sat down. They had a small buffet on the side with some meats, dessert, and some other little sides.
The sushi was to order, so the waiter gives each table an iPad and you can order up to 10 pieces of sushi per person. Harry and I ordered 20 with the plan of trying everything on the menu, and the selection was huge. About 3 pages pages of sushi choices each page having about 30 odd dishes.
The first order was unsuccessful, we didn’t realise all of them come pre ordered with wasabi, unless you are able to read Japanese and select them without, and with a 200 Yen charge if you leave a piece of sushi Harry had a strop.
A lot of the menu was in English, but parts were only Japanese, so we decided we’d select a few of these options. We ended up ordering drinks, which of course weren’t free with the meal, but had an optional extra of unlimited drinks, costing only like 2000 Yen more. Exactly what we’d been looking for previous nights, but unlimited food and drink together is a dangerous game. But we decided to play. And as we’d lost about 30 minutes of drinking time (you only get 90 minutes per sitting) we ordered our drinks as quickly as we could, while simultaneously trying to taste every dish of sushi.
And I loved it, fully in my element! I got through most of the sushi, a beer, sake, red wine, and some whisky.
Was a good day.
6th August
Today we re-attampted to visit the Imperial Gardens. Last week we went and the guard sent us away saying it was closed, no explanation, barely any English actually. So we assumed it was a one off maintenance of the park kind of thing. We were wrong. Turns out it’s a Monday thing, and guess what. Today was Monday once again. So we walked in the scorching heat to this park, my t shirt had changed a different colour from the amount of sweat, and all to just be rejected once again. We sat on the curb in the shade for about 30 minutes before heading towards another public temple.
This was the Hie temple.
It had a cool little walkway under some picturesque stairway.
After this we were drained, the heat was a bit too much, so got the metro home and went for a long cold shower.
JC'ing 