A series of unfortunate events.

We got up bright and early to get into downtown Tokyo and be ready outside the Sony building for 11am when it opened.

Coming out of the tube stop we attempted to read a map. Well, it was either left or right. We chose to go left, of course the correct direction was right. So we trundled along through glittery Ginza for a while, watching the posh women wearing full Kimono's to go shopping at Gucci and YSL. We walked for quite a while and ended up in the fish district...

We realised that of course we had read the map wrong and set off in the right direction. After walking for what seemed like too long, we pondered over a street map for quite a while before realizing we were standing next to the Sony building LOL.

We waited outside for 10 minutes or so waiting for it to open so we could rush in and try all the exclusive playstation stuff. There was a wedding going on inside while we were waiting. Strange place for a wedding we thought. Well, nothing says 'I love you' like state of the art electrical goods.

We got inside and couldn't find the interactive playstation stuff so Shahreena asked at the information desk. Turns out the playstation display isn't open at the weekends!!! AND IS IN ANOTHER FLIPPING BUILDING! IN ANOTHER FLIPPING DISTRICT!!!

So we went to starbucks to lament. (Starbucks is our god while we're here, cos whilest I hate the corporate-ness of it in England, the fact that coffee can banish Jetlag and sleepless nights in one lovely cup is priceless.) We thought, all is not lost, we are pretty near the godzilla statue, that'll be cool and cheer us up from our Sony tragedy. How wrong we were.

We thought we had finally found the "Godzilla statue". Well, it wasn't exactly as we had expected. It was a 10ft metal cone. With some spikes coming out of it. And a clock on the top. Which said "tard" across it. We were most disappointed.
(In reality, it turns out that that wasn't the godzilla statue. We were a few blocks away from the real godzilla statue, which is a puny 3ft replica of Godzilla. I dunno which statue would have been more disappointing...)

We were now lamenting both Sony and Godzilla and knew only one thing could cheer us up. Photobooths! We found some in a nearby arcade thank god. Then played Tekken 6 for a while. It's so good.

From there, we decided we needed to have some thrills and so we set off to a themepark in north Tokyo. Our mapreading skills told us there were two equidistant metro-stops near it. We chose the one which in reality is about 2 miles away. And I really needed the loo. Luckily on the way we came across a shopping mall (which are simply everywhere) and we both ran to the toilet. We decided to get some lunch in a japanese Italian place. Shahreena got Cheezu pizza which tasted like infection apparently. Oh dear.

We we finally got to the themepark and on the way in came across some photobooths. We couldn't resist. An there was also a Shonen Jump SHOP! WOW!!

The themepark was amazing. We went on the flume first. This is where we fell in love. With a group of big American kids and their mum. Who was called momma. We had some serious laughing fits eavesdropping on their pearls of wisdom. You see we learnt that, "if you have it, you should give it. Cos then you'll get it and when you get it, you'll have it..."

We stayed there til it was dark. Mega fun times!

Now we're off to Harajuku to play papparazzi to the cosplay-zoku. Don't wait up!