Today I had the opportunity to meet one of my very good Japanese friends that I met back in Montreal. From Tokyo, she used to work at Tokyo Disney and now works in a fancy pub in the Shinagawa area of Tokyo.
I first went to Akihabara for lunch and had extra spicy curry and then met up with my friend at the Ueno station of the Yamanote line. Then we decided to go to Akihabara to have a truly Japanese experience: go to a maid café. Going to a maid café means that you are a master to the young waitresses in their French maid costumes. Apparently this is a big fantasy for Japanese geeks, or Otaku. This was a funny experience, but I still don't understand why it's a big thing. Also, my Japanese friend had lots of trouble explaning the "MOE" word in Otaku culture so that is also a mystery to me. Anyone knows?
I ended up joining her at work and had extra spicy potatoes.. they were too spicy, I started having hiccups. The bartender was quite friendly and kept making jokes about Osaka people because I told him I had stayed in Osaka most of my time in Japan.
That night I visited East Shinjuku under a different light in the ni-chome area until late... I wandered in the streets and found myself feasting on Takoyaki watching transvestites, gogo boys and drunken samurai passing by. They seemed to be remnants of a party I had missed. It was time for me to go back to the youth hostel. Only now, I was alone, well not exactly, I had seen a roach hiding under my futon when I turned on the light, so that night I slept with the lights on with all my clothes on.
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