Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ikebukuro adventure and last day in Tokyo :'( entry 20

Saturday was a wonderful day filled with new discoveries and many adventures. We woke up and went to this huge all you can eat buffet in Asakusa. There were all kinds of foods and drinks that I had never seen before. It started with some green vegetable juice that was somehow sweet and a crazy looking fruit that I later found out was a lychee, it was super good. After that I just went around and grabbed one of everything because there were way to many options. After my stomach felt like it was about to pop. I went back to the hostel for a bit and then went out on my grand Ikebukuro Adventure. Two of my friends and I went around the district looking for some fun and later we started searching for scenes from the anime Durara. In the process of site hunting I manged to finally make it to a Maid Cafe. It was fun, but in a way kinda made me feel awkward. I still had a really fun time and it turns out it was the same one in Durara, imagine that! I was very excited about doing this because I really enjoyed this show and was hoping to see what the artist saw when he was in the process of making it. It was somewhat like stepping into a parallel universe, seeing the show in reality was a dream come true. We went around to several sites and took pictures of us acting out the scenes in the show. Two sites took us literally all day to track down, and when we finally found them it was like a dream come true. We started celebrating when the women took us to the site and she started celebrating with us. One of the scenes was simply a parking lot, one might think it would be impossible to find a random parking lot in the largest district of Tokyo but amazingly we managed to track it down. This was such an amazing but also sad day; we lived an anime and even made it to a Maid Cafe. I would not trade the past three weeks of my life for anything.  It has truly been a life changing experience, and one day I will go back to Japan but until then I will just have to settle for the land of the free!



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