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I'm terrible with names. We stayed in Shinjuku, just west of the station. We spent most of our time in either Shinjuku or Shibuya. We roamed around Harajuku (but apparently it's not the crazy fashion place it was in the 90s). We went to Akihabara and bought random Gundam stuff, played a bunch of arcade games and went into a maid cafe for a beer (which was fucking surreal). We spent a lot of time in Bane Bagus (spelling?) throwing darts when we had an hour to kill.

One night we were in Roppongi roaming around in tiny rooms, a strip club, before ending up in a night club that was awesome (no idea the name). It was ladies night and I ended up talking to a girl that looked like Zelda hahaha. That was really fun . Other nights we just roamed from bar to bar, but those nights weren't that great as there weren't many people out. On Friday we ate dinner at a three-star Michelin restaurant called Koju in Ginza. I think the food was too subtle for me and I wanted to appreciate it but I honestly didn't. We had a few drinks in Ginza and then ended up at club Womb (I think). I really liked the music, the vibe and the giant lazer dancing to the music. The only problem was too many foreigners, very few Japanese people in there. I still had a great time and I love trance to death so I was so happy.

We spent all day one day at the sumo tournament (noon - 6). Drank a lot of beers and had a betting system set up. That was fucking awesome. We went to the tuna auction, where you have to be there at 4:30 AM. That was cool but you didn't really get to see too much. I got separated from my friends and accidentally walked right through the middle of the section visitors aren't allowed in where there's thousands of forklifts ripping around.

We ate sushi at the fish market. It was good. But the best sushi was Midori. People were super friendly, the price was great and the taste was incredible. We ate a lot of udon, yakitori and ramen. Finding places to eat dinner was always an awesome adventure. My favourite ramen place was apparently a chain (I don't know the name) where you got seated individually in kind of cubicle seating. I can't remember the other famous place we went to but it was really fucking good.

Anyways, Tokyo was awesome. I don't know if I'd ever go back because I feel like we saw a lot of the city and there's so many other places to go, but I had a blast every hour of the day.

Oh, we also went to this mall called Lumiere EX in Shijuku. It had the hottest girls I've ever seen in Asia. All we did was walk around this little underground mall for 30 minutes.

One other weird story that won't make sense, but I'll try my best: While in Lumiere EX, I saw this one girl carrying two massive pieces of luggage running into a store. She just grabbed three of the same shirts and paid and was out of there within 30 seconds. She then ran across the hall to the next store and repeated it. And repeated it. Always three items. Then she would check her phone and run to the next store. I told my friends what was going on and we started creepily following her and betting on which store she would go to, how long it would take her to buy something, and what she would buy. Went on for about 5 minutes before she noticed us so we stopped being creepy and left. I still have no idea wtf she was doing. We had a theory that her boyfriend / family was super rich and gave her their credit card for a day.