My stamina ran out about five days ago, and I developed a technique of siphoning energy from my soul to keep going. Yesterday my soul ran dry as well, so I had to use a forbidden spell to sacrifice my very humanity so I could continue with the punishing schedule I’ve been on for almost a month now. And so what’s left of this man has reached the end of another long vacation. In what has become tradition, the vacation once again draws to its end in Akihabara.
I inadvertently went to a new Sushiro sushi restaurant and discovered they’d move on from tablet ordering systems into massive touchscreens at every booth! Even the sushi train itself is now virtual, and if you touch something scrolling by on the screen it will be sent to your booth. It’s not surprising to be impressed with technological advances while in Japan, but this one impressed me more than I have been in a while.
Naturally I got my ‘hamburger sushi’ again, which is magnificent and truly the peak of authentic Japanese cuisine, as I’m sure you’ll agree.
I spent a lot of time in card shops today, and took photos of the most expensive cards I saw for various games. From top left, we have a $3800 One Piece card, a $5900 Pokémon card, a $6300 Yugioh card, and a $107000 Magic card. I chose not to buy any of them. 🙂
I also spent quite a bit of time in the Hirose arcade, playing Kamen Rider and a bunch of retro games (Volfied, Cadash, various R-Type clones and both Macross shooters). The more time I spent in this incredible arcade the more I love it. The above photo was taken on the fourth floor and all the cabs along the left are different Tetris games.
I also found this cabinet that is apparently continuously streamed to a YouTube channel! Of course I played the game and I wonder if there were any viewers? What a wonderful idea.
I did a lot of ‘text shopping’ with KLS today, which entails me texting photos of displays (usually cosmetics) then her telling me if she’s interested in anything. We’ve done it before and it’s a lot of fun. It was a big success and she was able to get several fun items. (She didn’t want the cat compact in the photo.)
Dinner was my favourite meat spaghetti from Saizeriya, which I ate six times these past two weeks. I’m 43% noodle now!
And dinner 2 was a melonpan from Daily Yamazaki, which is a rare konbini which is why I didn’t have this one in my melonpan review post. I’ll save my opinion for next time.
Now I’m packing while watching anime on TV. Tomorrow I fly home, and hopefully by this time tomorrow I’ll be asleep on the plane.
Here I am with a couple of professional cosplayers promoting an anime series (the same one for which I got the stickers yesterday). They were cute and welcoming and my smile is very genuine. I’ve had this smile on my face most of the last two weeks. Even despite the heat and discomfort, and the overly abundant and sometimes rude tourists, I still love it here and already look forward to my next visit 🙂