Matthew's Here

We had already prepared ourselves for the fact that Matthew might not make it to Japan because of the snow, so when he walked through the airport, I was honestly SO HAPPY!!! Before he had come out I had watched a girl greet her parents... they stood there hugging and swaying... they were crying ... (and I was crying). lol I'm so soppy!! God knows what it's gunna be like when my parents come to visit me... I think I'll need to pull out the waterproof mascara! haha. Anyway! MATTHEW'S HERE!!!

 We came back from the airport by the skyliner (kind of like the Shinkansen) and we saw rice fields and beautiful scenery!! It was really nice! We stopped off at Ueno and went straight to TGIs for some food!

We decided to take a walk down Ameyoko market street and we found a little shrine hidden away,
which had autumns leaves! Can you believe 24th December and there are Autumn leaves? hehe

It was funny walking down these streets because Japanese people keep their heads down and go straight to what they are looking at, where as we were looking all around us and as soon as you make eye contact with the people working on the stall, they start shouting at you to go and buy their food! It was so funny;

"Sushi!!!" "Fish eggs!!!" "Please try"

And they all compete with each other, who can shout the loudest!

 We put Matt's suitcase in a locker at the station and headed to Akihabara Electric Town!!!

These cut outs were outside this adult entertainment store called Legs Avenue! This was hilarious trying to take this photo because everyone was looking at us!!! We went into the Sega building which was filled with Sega Arcade game,s with lots and lots of Anime characters everywhere!

We went to a couple of random shops in Akihabara, then we decided we would take Matthew to a Maid cafe, as we hadn't been to one yet and we thought we should go at least once whilst we are in Japan. There were so many girls stood on the main street with flyers for their maid cafe, some dressed as maids, some in cute animal costumes and some in Santa outfits! We decided we didn't want to go somewhere mainstream, so we headed down a random back street and found this cute little cafe called Pinkys. The girls were dressed up in santa costumes and when we went in the room, all the lights were off and there was a disco ball spinning round and some people were waving glow sticks and in the corner was a little stage with one of the girls singing on and another girl was kneeling in front of the stage hitting the tambourine intime with the music... all I can say was it was soooooooooooooooooo typically cute Japanese!!! Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take photos inside the cafe, but our waitress was lovely and we got a Polaroid photo taken with her!

It was really nice in there, but I'm not sure I would go back to the same one because that might be a bit creepy, although I did have a points card - haha. Matt was totally knackered, so we came home!!! Really great first day :-D