J2 – Gary Comes to Japan! Part 5

After Kyoto, we had but a scant few days left where Mitch and I had the same days off…. We made the most of them though! On the 20th we managed to get to Tokyo Dome; mostly for Gary to enjoy the Moomin Cafe, which is pretty adorable. I have to say, it was much better this time; I think they were better staffed? We also spent ages in the park nearby (even though it was raining!), and relaxed. Have some Moomins!

Took Gary to the best cafe in Chiba; The Third Wave

Look at this home made apple pie!

Can you spot the raccoon? It’s about two streets down from us!

And we made it to the dome

The park in the rain was lovely and quiet

Daww

Hi Mitch!

I love the perspective in this shot. Gary looks even further away than he should

Moomin Time!

Gary seemed pretty darn pleased

I don’t know what turned up at this point but it must have been edible

I surprised the guys by asking for a cake and a wee celebration…. Didn’t realise they were going to make the entire place sing and give them hats though! Once they got over the embarrassment they seemed to enjoy it 😛

They totally misheard Gary’s name on the phone, but never mind 😛

My best impression

The next day was a bit more varied; we started at a cat cafe in Asakusa; then Mitch ran to work and Gary and I walked about the crazyness that is Asakusa. Definitely a great place to go for sightseeing with the shrine, the Skytree, the shopping street and the crowds.

We arrived! Love this river view.

The Tellytubbies style giant plant bowl was still there!!

What a view

Boo!

Mitch getting some strokes in

Gary’s first cat cafe!

Just look at that paw

This little guy loved Gary’s sugar packet. And that is NOT a euphemism before you go thinking about alternate words for cat….

More Gary love

It’s not floating; there’s glass; honest!

Gary in the crowds

First ice cream of the day

Darn cool dragon to wash your filthy hands and mouth before you go near the shrine

Ceiling dragon

Impersonating

Second ice cream! this one was sweet potato; delicious!!

The evening was filled with theme. First we met Mitch, our friend Linh, and her twin sister Thuy in Harajuku, and headed to the Kawaii Monster Cafe. It was amazing and weird all at once. The staff were all dressed up like Cyberdog shop assistants and we sat in a mushroom booth. I cannot do the place justice with my words; so here is the link and some piccies: http://kawaiimonster.jp/pc/en/concept/gallery.html#!/1

The food was so colourful!

Rainbow pasta!

The monster-go-round

At one point they did this weirdly half assed dance thing which would have been awesome with more than two staff members haha

Jellyfish bar

Sorry for the blurryness, but check out the weird bunny

Me and the twinsies! Linh left, Thuy right.

We shared this monster; it was delicious

From this crazy and cute, we walked over to Shibuya for some crazy and scary; a bar called Lockup. It’s a prison themed bar with crazy drinks and silly food and it was pretty cool. I think with more staff it would have been great as the place felt a bit empty, but the principle was great! At some point the staff let the “criminals” loose and they come and scare the living daylight out of you by rattling the bars of the cell that serves as your room. The police staff come and save the day eventually, but not before you get to scream a bit! The toilet was probably the freakiest though…. I went to sit down and this speaker I hadn’t even noticed starts giggling and telling me terrifying things. I literally didn’t even pee; I screamed and pulled up my trousers before I realised there wasn’t anyone there! I warned the girls, so next time we all went together haha. Anyway; check out the cool drinks!

Look at the eyeball… and Mitch’s drink is purple and came with candyfloss!

My drink was a test tube set 😀

Ghost pudding

Worm…?

That day was pretty full of stuff! The last few days Gary was here I had to work 😦 But One day he came to the mall and bought some glasses 🙂 And the day before he left I had off so we could hang out a bit and play pool, as well as get him packed and stuff.

When we went for sushi, the chef made us two tiny tiny egg sushi! Two grains of rice a piece; so adorable. No idea why he made them! He just handed them over!

Gary at our fave Thai place; with the melon

Mitch made croquettes; they’re amazing

On the last day we went for pool. It was lovely and relaxed.

I made us a sign at the pool place.

Also we had french toast.

And that was pretty much it for the Gary holiday! We stayed up all night before he left because he had a super early flight. I slept at about 5am and then went to work, and the guys hung out at the airport until he had to say sayounara.

I’ll leave you with a picture of some hilarious game themed lube, and what we ended up doing with my Maple leaf tree.

Best lube bottles I have ever seen