The plan today was to head to Yoyogi park to enjoy the sun and get drunk under the Sakura. We picked up supplies, a box of red wine and many sandwiches, snacks and rice sets, made our way to the park and eventually located Donna and Lisa sat next to a bunch of guys playing football.
Japanese kids are so cute, a couple of women with their kids were next to us having a picnic and messing around. Adorable!
There appeared to be a bizarre random sex cult practicing some form of yoga / capoera type thing next to us. It was slightly freaky, it looked like there was a cult leader who was an aged and slightly portly American hippy looking guy directing people into locking poses with each other.
We had fun chatting and getting drunk, Donna had to leave late afternoon but was then replaced with Lisas partner Jules and hour later.
We stayed on the park way past sundown until all the booze had been drunken then we headed into an area of Shinjuku called Golden Gai (golden area) which is a very old part of the city mainly constructed of two storey wooden buildings. They all appear to be bars / restaurants, this area is in danger from developers as they want to pull it all down and build high rise apartments and offices.
We went to Champions bar, a quaint little Karaoke Bar. Drinks were cheap and for it's size there were a good mix of people in there, Japanese business men, tourists and us lot. It was only 100¥ to sing a track Lisa and Jules did plenty of Oasis and Stereophonics style tunes, I did some meatloaf and of course Tinnie Tempah whilst Neil started camp with Barbara Streisand and Kylie but then moved onto famous Japanese pop songs. This made him an instant hero with the Japanese business men.
Location:Tokyo
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