Godzilla Almost Ate Us

Our last day in Tokyo was spent exploring the neighborhoods of Harejuku, Shinjuku and Roppongi Hills. They are extreme opposites in Tokyo- as Harejuku is the funky nabe where young kids personify anime characters. Roppongi Hills is the very high end of Tokyo. It was fun to see the differences, and we even stumbled upon a festival of Japanese traditional dance, and it was an incredible sight to see so many people dancing in unison. Both Josh and I were surprised at how moving it was.

So, we’ve seen some great t-shirts lately too. In printing, they seem to sometimes mess up the R and L sounds- so I laughed when we saw
“Flesh Fluit for you” on a t-shirt covered with different fruits. As long as the shirts have English on them, it doesn’t seem to matter what they actually say. We’ve seen “Pleasure Central” on a young girl, and things like “This flourist loves flowers” (actuall spelling), and “Common Place”. Ha ha ha.

On our last night in Tokyo, we went to a restaurant called Robataya. The restaurant looks very simple and unimpressive from the outside, but on the inside, it was magical. There were two men sprawled out on wooden planks that reached onto a raised area of baskets filled with all kinds of foods. They had grills in front of them where they cooked the food that they made for us, and then passed the food to us on long wooden spatulas. It was so fun and Luna especially had a blast. We were the only ones there because we got there so early- which is a great advantage to us because we can get the attention of the people working there and ask any questions we might have, too. They made towel animals for Luna, gave her a special Japanese chef’s headband, and she had a blast. The pictures tell it all.

After dinner, we went and hung around the latest art installation in Tokyo- Godzilla! The sculpture was at least 30 feet tall and it was so fun to see. Glad he’s not real.