Central Tokyo

Today we decided to finally venture to downtown Tokyo. We had plenty planned but our tremendous map-reading skills threw a spanner in the works. When we finally made our way to the East Imperial Gardens, we couldn't be bothered to sight see around central Tokyo anymore so we hopped on the tube to Ueno to do a spot of shopping. In the station we happened across a Japanese Hard Rock Cafe and of course we had to go in. So we ate a burger, sitting under Madonna's bra and Geri Halliwell's swimming costume.

In Ueno we were stopped by a guy who thought he could speak good English but we couldn't understand a word. He seemed to be trying to get our money for something because being tourists, we　must be rich and looking to throw away our money. We gave him an excuse and smiled and when he looked away we legged it.

Carrying Shahreena's massive digital SLR camera around all day, every day has given us bruises, so I bought a cheap shoulder bag (to put the camera in) and customised it with Hard Rock badges and now it looks designer. Win!

We're gonna lounge around the hotel complex tonight since we've got a longish train journey to Kamakura tomorrow. Maybe we'll do some bowling or go to the aquarium. (Yes, the hotel has a cinema, bowling alley and aquarium amongst other things.)

Oh and we finally found a place selling English manga today so we're pretty happy with life.