Shinjuku and jacket potatoes

On the 12th of December, Bekah, Sam and I decided that it was high time for some jacket potatoes! So we agreed to meet at Sam’s at around 6.15, after Sam and I had run some errands in Shinjuku and Bekah in Ikebukuro. The most interesting thing about the day was that I went while it was still light! I haven’t done that yet really haha. So I got to see some cool things from the train:

Random run down looking building that is not only supposedly a pizzeria, but also has a gate to oblivion!!

Traditional looking something in the belly of a modern looking something

 

Once I got to Shinjuku and found Sam we went to a very cool ice cream place that he’d told me about; what sounds better than ice cream dipped in hot chocolate? Nothing. So we went and it was awesome.

I had vanilla and salted caramel 🙂 The hot chocolate tasted like pure melted chocolate and spooing a mouthful of that with ice cream in was amazing. Grom rocks!

 

The next mission was to get Sam some rainbow towels he’d been umming and aahing over for a while from the 100 yen shop, then off to a really tall building to go to the Nikon shop. I needed to find out how much it would cost to fix my zoom lens but ‘popping to the Nikon shop’ took waaaaay longer than it should have because I’m a numpty and took us the wrong way 😛 But once we got there it was awesome; the shop was on the 28th floor or so, so the view was amazing! And the inside was pretty spangly too. The downside is they want about £70 to fix my lens so at some point I’ll suck it up and pay it…. Gah.

Sams new towels

Funky mirror pillars make for fun photos

Bad quality but that’s the view!

The shop itself

 

We then went to meet Bekah who we’d left sitting in a cafe for an hour because we were so late -.- But once we got to Sam’s a good time was had by all! Jacket potatoes, Lucy (Sam’s flatmate) improvising Christmas songs on her new shamisen, DS games and so on 🙂