We did so much today! But you kind of have to because there’s so much to cover, it’s impossible to do everything.

Our morning was spent on a traditional Japanese cooking course where we cooked, among other things, wagyu meat (and ate it).

A train ride away we found Kamakura with its 11 m tall Buddha statue and the Hasedera shrine with its beautiful gardens.

Back in Tokyo, we went to Shinjuku where Godzilla resides on the top of a building and Golden Gai is home to many tinsy tiny bars, of which we visited one with the charming name “Deathmatch in Hell”. Its walls are covered in dvd’s and vhs’s of horror movies, plus horror paraphernalia and screens running cult horror movies. And all the drinks cost 666 yen. Before going home to the hotel we had a little wander through Memory Lane, aka Piss Alley among the locals. A narrow street lined with yakitori restaurants that can only squeeze in a handful of customers at a time. We also couldn’t avoid walking through Kabukicho, Tokyo’s red light district, with disturbingly young women/girls dressed like anime dolls handing out pamphlets for bars and lounges in a squeaky voice. Fairly sure the “girls bar” is mostly for men…