The sun rises before 5 am here, and I wake with it every morning. This means I’m not getting enough sleep, perhaps, which will certainly catch up with me eventually?

Bernard is a bit broken so took a day off yesterday to heal. KLS and I headed to the famous Nakano mall for a low impact day of more shopping.

Lunch was great! I have no idea what the restaurant was called but we got a massive amount of food for only $13. Here we are eating like dogs:

I was a bit disturbed that my ‘100% not fake’ eating face is a bit deformed…

Nakano is a normal mall connected to another that specializes in hobbies (games, manga, toys etc). KLS spent time perusing the cosmetic shops before we ascended into the otaku madness of the upper floors.

The shops are many and varied, but one of the more unusual was selling ‘transparent animals’.

Here’s a giant prize in a UFO catcher:

And no, even standing right there it didn’t seem possible to remove one if you won!

We got tired early in the afternoon and headed back for some R&R and dinner with Bernard. Depending on our energy, I had something planned for the next day (in other words, later today!)