Tokyo Day 2

Day 2 was quite testing. It started very well. We went to the top of the Tokyo Met Government Building and my goodness the scale of the city was clear to me here. The city stretched on for miles and met MT. Fuji (which i was hoping to see so heck yeah). And was amazing to see something so huge, with so many interesting building shapes. I wish i had taken more sketches here but i took plenty of photos.

Then we went to a park. I don't remember the name but i still have the map. Did you know the grass in Japan is seasonal? I'd never consider seeing anywhere in the world with white grass, but it lead to some amazing sights, there was also a greenhouse full of exotic plants that was very cool to see. Mostly touristy stuff but i made sure to get photos of stuff i found inspiring or relevant or just all around cool.

 Next up was the Imperial Gardens. It was clear that i was not the only who had trouble with the scale of maps compared to the scale of Tokyo. Mike suggested we walk to the imperial gardens. I was all for this Idea. We learned it was a 5 mile walk. I was still all for this idea. We stopped multiple times on the way there because the group was so big and some of them wanted to go into a pet shop. I was less up for this idea. The trouble only really started happening however when it got to lunchtime. We saw a little of the imperial gardens before we all rushed off to try and find some food, and i found myself leading a group of animators. I WILL NEVER EVER ATTEMPT TO ORGANISE A GROUP OF ANIMATORS FOR FOOD IN A NON ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY AGAIN. My respect/concern for Mike grew after realising how damn hard it is to organise a group of... non people persons. We found a place to eat but was only one waiter who could speak a little bit of english, and with around 18 of us i had to try and get peoples orders ready, and as the waiter slowly came out telling us more and more dishes were unavailable, and as more and more people stopped listening to important info, and as more and more people (Guy) tried to micromanage while being unwilling to attempt to talk to the waiter directly i ended up bailing with Lauren and Emma to get food from a local convenience store. This left poor old Max to organise everyone. I don't know how he managed it without shouting at people but from the sounds of it i managed to get myself out of there in the nick of time. Apologies Max... Next meals we had were with at least 8 people or under. Mostly under. 

it was long but we eventually got fed, and because we were all shattered from the walk we got the tube back, which was the original idea ironically. Me, max, sylv and dan stayed in the area for a little while but found not much so we went back to Shinjuku to explore for the evening. Tube was easy enough, remember the name and find some english signs. Its clear if i want to spend more time in japan i should attempt to learn to read japanese as well as speak it so i have already got Hiragana and Katakana alphabets stuck up in my room to learn. We got Yakiniku (Japanese grilled meat) and had a bit of a shop, got some useful pens, japanese pens are so much better than half the shit in the UK.