Today I had to switch hostels, but still stayed in the same general area as before. However, I am now closer to a subway line that is more direct. Anyway, after waking up and getting ready I headed to Khaosan Tokyo Original Guesthouse. This place has a lot of charm and is quite nice. I`m now in a room with 7 other girls so it feels a bit Cottey-esque. Everyone seems super nice and it is so much fun to meet people from all over the world. I`m staying with a girl from Switzerland, Spain and Austrialia (that I know of, haven`t met the others.)
Anyway, today was spent is Shibuya with my Cottey friends, Sayo and Sayo. They both moved back to Japan after going to school in the states and it was super nice to see them. We had lunch together at an okonomiyaki restaurant. You get a bowl of stuff, cabbage, meat, egg and all sorts of other stuff and then you cook it on a griddle on the table. It was so good! We had a kimchi and pork one and a seafood one that included squid and shrimp. We had two others, but I can`t remember what that were. After lunch we went to the karaoke room and belted out some tunes. This karakoe room was quite similar to a noraebang in Korea, but they had WAY more songs to choose from. After that we went to a photo booth and got pictures taken and we decorated them all crazy and we each got some to take home. Then we got a soda at McDonald`s and chatted. It was time to part ways after that, but I had SO much fun with the girls. It made us all miss Cottey people a lot. However, they are both planning on visiting me in Seoul as neither of them have ever been to Korea and it is really quite cheap for them to come visit.
Later on in the evening I explored the Asakusa area once more and found a cute/cheap tempura restaurant where I had eggplant, pumpkin, string bean, lotus and mushroom tempura with rice. It was quite delicious. I`m finding it easy to spend money in Tokyo, but I am pretty sure I won`t end up blowing my budget. In fact, I`m sure I`ll have some money left over for New Year`s Eve in Seoul.
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Very good!
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