Got up at 9AM to get ready for check out from our hotel. Packed up all my things, took a few complimentary things and we were on our way to the train station. Go o Nagoya, a little over an hour by Shinkansen. We were suppose to meet Jeh’s friend for dinner, but since we got there at 2ish, we had plenty of time to browse around the city.
We first tried to find the Anime Robot Museum. However, after walking around for about 45 mins around the block it’s suppose to be on we gave up and headed towards Oasis 21, which is known for the UFO shaped roof with water running over it to prevent heat from entering in the area. Nothing out of the ordinary, except for a Pokemon Center. Browsed through it for a second just to see what it had. Lots of stuffed Pokemon, los of figures, card, games, and random Nintendo accessories Pokemon related. We went in an info booth as asked about the Robot Museum. They said it’s closed down. Meh. Headed off to a Bookstore afterwards to try and find Melissa a certain book. We found it and just stayed in there reading books until 6 rolls around.
Jeh’s friend Tate met us at the bookstore and took us to a chicken restaurant. Tate is from the US teaching English to kids. Nagoya is famous for their chicken. We ordered 2 orders of friend wings, 2 orders of boneless fried wings filled with gyoza filling (!), Chicken meatballs, some fish, and shitake mushrooms. Hella good. Afterward headed back to Tokyo and eventually, Iki’s house.
The next day, Peter, Roger, Jeh, Melissa, Joyce, and I all met up at Shinigawa Station. We all left for Akihabara, so-called the Gaming Mecca of the world. As soon as we got there, we went to a retaurant and had a good meal of Kontatsu (Fried pork chops). After, we were on our journey. Akihabara, Akiba for short, is pretty huge. It’s about 7 blocks by 7 blocks with nothing but buildings with at least 6 floors of anime, manga, gaming, arcades, UFO catchers, maid cafes (more on this later), restaurants, hobby shops (Anime figures, Gundam models, Toy trains, Airsoft, card shops, and more), capsule machines shops, cosplay shops, and last, but not least, adult shops filled all sorts of interesting products.
We browsed for figures until 4pm where we met up with Amy and her friend, Feng. We played UFO catchers for an hour and won a pretty big stuffed raccoon and gave it to Amy, and a Gloomy Bear bloody paw keychain for myself. Afterwards, we went to eat at a Shabu Shabu restaurant. A Shabu Shabu restaurant is an all you can eat hotpot. There is a big pot of boiling water in the middle of the table. The staff then gives you different thin cuts of pork and beef. You put the rectangular thin slices, think deli ham thickness, into the pot for about 30 seconds and you take it out, and dip it into your favorite sauce and eat. You also put, if you want, different types of veggies and noodles into the pot too. If you’re running out of meat, you just call one of the staff and they’ll come back with the meat of your choice. Oh, and you can only eat for 1.5 hours. Well after we’re done, it’s 9:30. About 9/10 of all stores in Akiba that are still open, so we called it a night.

There are 3 or 4 main arcades that I can think of right now. Sega Tower, Taito Tower, and Don Quixote. They all have about the same arcades. However, I like Don Quixote’s arcade the most. Mainly because they have two Beatmania IIDX machines. Not only that, but they’re set for 4 songs each play instead of 3. They also have 4 Street Fighter 4 machines that were generally smoke free. Smoking is permitted in all 3 arcades, but I found that Don Quixote didn’t have that many smokers.

Whatever, long article, I'll finish it tomarrow.