Day 9: Last day in Tokyo

Oh no, everything comes to an end. Our vacation in Tokyo is over and I am really sad to leave. If you had one last day in Toyko left, what would you do?

Fabian and I decided to do our favorite things, having a last relaxed day. Can you guess what we did? ^^

Of course! ^^

After cleaning our friend's apartment for a few hours and shopping in H&M again, we went to our favorite relaxing place. It is the fourth time that we go to Shibuya Starbucks, but we just love this so much! ^^

And then we went shopping in Shibuya near Harajuku station. We had to check out the store, which sells Uniqlo shoes and has everything on sale. It is packed in there (especially because Sunday is Shopping Day in Japan - not like boring Germany, where you cannot do anything on Sundays), but I fought my way through and bought some nice boots ^^ Yosh!

 

Sometimes I wonder what day today is. When you do not have a university schedule or any other obligations, one is indifferent to the weekdays. But when I saw this I immediately knew what day today is. It is Freakday: Sunday. This is the day of the week you should go to Shibuya and Yoyogi Park. Teenagers can put on their second identities and meet up with their groups to live their fantasies.

So Fabian and I had a very relaxed day, doing our favorite things, slowly saying goodbye to Tokyo. I fell in love with Tokyo, although there are many things that get on my nerves. I am especially tired of the masses of people! Tokyo has too many people! You cannot walk straight, you have to constantly concentrate to avoid people. People are rushing all the time or standing in the way. Here in Tokyo is the first time in Japan, that I encounter unmotivated or even unfriendly service people. In Oita or the other Japanese cities that I travelled to I never experienced any shop assistants who were not very polite and smiled. But here there are some people that are on the friendliness-level of Germany even! I guess this is what such a huge city with many tourists brings with it. But I did not see as many foreigners here in Tokyo as I had expected. Staff people here speak English very well, so this is where you can see that Tokyo is used to tourists. But still, when walking around this city, you encounter less Western people than expected.

Fabian and I have been alone in Tokyo since Friday evening, because Miriam had left for skiing with some friends. But we will meet her again to go to Nara and Hiroshima together. Also Miriam has booked her hostel in Kyoto, from where we will use our Railpass and travel to Osaka and Nara. So we save the nerve racking moving of our baggage from one hostel to another.

As Nagoya was a grab into the toilet (German English for Griff ins Klo) we are really afraid that Osaka, Nara, or Hiroshima could also be so boring. It would be a disaster and not  a nice finale of our holidays. Actually we had originally planned to go to Kobe today. But as our Nagoya experience has made us wary, we did thorough research about activities/sights in Kobe in order to estimate its fun factor. But when we read that even the Lonely Planet (our bible) says that it is not a must-see, we refrained from undetaking the risk of travelling there and reliving a trauma. So in about an hour Fabian and I will go on journey to Kyoto to our hostel. Haha, this is my third time in Kyoto. Seems to be a gravity point of my stay in Japan. And tomorrow we will go to Osaka. Drückt uns die Daumen! Wish us luck!