So this is our first real "weekend" since being here. Sure, we've had a weekend since being here, but it was basically just extended vacation. Now that classes have started and we've settled into our homes a bit, it finally feels like a weekend.
On saturday, we decided to get together for a bit and go have fun. We met up at the lounge of the Center for International Study (CIE). Well, I would say we met up, but someone took forever (coughcoughNygelcoughcough). Our group ended up being Elijah, myself, Nygel and Nobu, our recent japanese native friend. We were all starved due to a lack of breakfast, so we decided to go get lunch.
We went to Hirakatashi Station by bus and went to a Ramen shop. Let me tell you, this was GOOD ramen. Very very good ramen. I took a few pictures. My ramen is the one on the bottom left.
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| Yes, those ARE french fries. |
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| These foreigners are takin' our |
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| Delicious (minus the bean sprouts) |
Without Nobu there to help order with us, it would have been a train wreck haha.
So after we finished eating we decided to go to a book / movie / music / manga / anime store. While I have a bus pass that lets me ride the bus for free, Elijah, Nygel and Nobu don't, so we decided to walk. Along the way we passed by a police station and a canal. The canal was very pretty and green. It continually feels weird to see so much foliage so close to the city.
We also passed by, what Nobu called, a Three Dimensional Parking Lot. It looks really interesting, not quite sure how it works though.
After quite a long walk, we arrive at the store. The store we went to is called Tsutaya. It is a very dangerous store...for your wallet. It took amazing amounts of willpower for us to not spend all our money in this store.
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| One of the games at Tsutaya. Very good story. |
After Tsutaya we decided to walk to an arcade that was nearby... if you use nearby in the loosest definition of the word. The arcade we went to is called Sega World.
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| Yes, that is Nygel's head on the left. |
In that back corner of the arcade is the rhythm game section. A rhythm game is a game where you press button or tap the screen in sync with the rhythm of a song. The easiest example would be Guitar Hero. Anyways, we are all huge fans of rhythm games, so this is where we spent our entire time. Sadly, I didn't take many pictures inside the arcade. My phone camera takes wide shots, so I would have needed to stand far away to get a good picture of the machines. Here is the one picture I did take.
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| Yes, that IS Project Diva: Arcade on the Left. It is HARD. |
This is just 2 of the rhythm games. There were quite a few there, all incredibly fun.
This arcade is close by so we will be going back for sure.
After that we walked back towards campus where I grabbed a bus and headed home. It was loads of fun. That was the active day.
Now that it is sunday, I proceeded to sleep until 10:30. Call me lazy but man it felt great.
Active and Lazy. Two sides of the same coin.
We walked a minimum of 4.2KM or 2.6 Miles. If you want to see the exact route we took, here it is:
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