Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
Convenience Stores, Melon Soda, and Small Cups: The Unexpected Joys of Traveling in Japan
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Our journey through Japan continues as we dive deeper into the remarkable efficiency of Japanese transportation and culture. After parting ways temporarily, we embark on separate adventures – a solo night bus journey to Osaka for the World Expo showcases Japanese punctuality at its finest, with buses and trains departing exactly on schedule, down to the minute. The contrast between an 8-hour bus ride and a 2-hour bullet train return trip highlights Japan's transportation marvel.
The World Expo provides a fascinating glimpse into global cultures, with the stunning Lacker Globe – depicting Earth at night as seen from space – serving as a highlight. Meanwhile, our exploration of Tokyo's unique districts reveals unexpected treasures: Ueno Park's massive museums where five hours isn't enough to see everything, Akihabara's electronics and anime paradise, and the famous Shibuya Crossing that surprises not with its size but with its incredible pedestrian volume.
Japanese convenience stores become an unexpected cultural touchstone of our trip. Far beyond simple shops, places like Lawson's offer gourmet-quality meals, unique snacks, and become our daily ritual. We develop addictions to melon soda and the curiously named Pokey Sweat, while discovering the universal Japanese preference for tiny drink cups that require constant refills.
As we reunite and continue our adventure to Tokyo Disney, we encounter Japanese interpretations of Western foods, efficient transportation systems, and cultural differences that add charm rather than frustration. Whether getting lost in massive Tokyo Station or finding ourselves at a maid cafe, each experience adds another layer to our appreciation of Japan's unique blend of efficiency, tradition, and innovation that leaves us already planning our return in 2028.
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Hey, what up y'all? Once again, it's just me and one other person. I'm clearly the only one in this throuple that doesn't have a life.
Speaker 2:Or your life is your day ends on a Sunday sooner than ours, that's all.
Speaker 1:This is true it's a Sunday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so last week week I was out Meeting old girl's friend and it went way longer than we thought it was supposed to be. It was supposed to be like I don't know Three o'clock to like five o'clock, but Everybody got along, so we were just kind of chatting. It was, finally, one of her friends that Didn't get on my nerves, so it worked out. She's super cool Going through her own drama and whatnot. One of her friends that didn't get on my nerves, so it worked out.
Speaker 2:She's super cool, um, going through her own drama and whatnot, but whatever, aren't we all yeah Right, for real, it was a good chat. So, uh, and Duke, duke is busy. Uh, this weekend, uh, we'll let him talk about it next week, I guess, playing at the candy casino at EDC, edc.
Speaker 1:I can't, I cannot with that music. I would go for the people music. I would go for the people watching, but the music meh.
Speaker 2:I think I agree. The people watching would probably be super fun.
Speaker 1:But I have my own headphones on listening to my own music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I could even tolerate, I'd have to block it out somehow, whether whether it's uh, just earplugs to just block it out completely, or, like you said, put on some headphones, listen my own shit, because uh, I and I go live.
Speaker 1:I can't even see you listening to that, right like no but he said last week they were going to a concert too about some electronica house music or something up in seattle or some shit it's like no no, yeah, there's like I can't think of a scenario where I would go to something like that well, the concert or whatever it's, just on the music.
Speaker 2:It's like I you know I go freaking crazy not gonna do it, um, so yeah, so we'll get everybody back next week, uh, memorial weekend, uh, I think, uh, maybe are you, are you uh at disney next week?
Speaker 1:no, actually we are not whoa holiday weekend opportunity to go no, um, we're gonna check them res to see if there's any open no, uh, wife and little one are going to go that week, but not that weekend, oh okay oh, because we have hamilton on saturday oh, that's why.
Speaker 2:Okay, wait the the where the person is, back again, no, no, no, no, oh, okay here in town.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's not. That person's not traveling, did that? No, no he's, yeah, he's doing the new york, yeah, yeah broadway, okay, okay no, so they're gonna go I don't know sometime next week whenever school's officially done for teachers okay, so next.
Speaker 2:Okay, so memorial day is monday and then they're going sometime between Tuesday and the weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'll be gone. Big one will be gone to archery camp. It'll just be me All by my lonely. How long is?
Speaker 2:archery camp Two or three days. Did she do it last year? Yeah, oh, wow, I don't remember that. Oh, that's cool, man, man, we can do it yourself. All that time, shit.
Speaker 1:My alarm's not going off at 6.30 in the morning anymore. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 2:Man, you ain't lying. The alarm here goes off when it not for me, at about 5.45, 6. And then mine goes off at 7. 7.15,. One of the two depends on if I need to shave or not that morning.
Speaker 1:Oh man well, one of those days I do have a dentist appointment to deal with oh man, my last one was Friday.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, feeling much better, loving it. My next appointment is the follow up on June 6. So yeah, I guess I have a couple of old root canals feeling much better, uh, loving it. My next appointment is the follow-up on june 6th.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I guess. Um, I have a couple of old root canals and there's like abscesses or something under them. Oh so I guess I gotta take the cap, but they don't hurt. She's like so are you feeling any pain or anything?
Speaker 2:I'm like no, I'm good well, if you don't have the, if you don't have the nerves and you're not gonna feel right, that's what.
Speaker 1:I'm saying. So I guess I got to, like, take the crowns off and I don't know, pack medicine in it or something.
Speaker 2:Oh they just give you a script like an antibiotic.
Speaker 1:No, well, I mean no, they're going to have to like, take the caps off and like put medicine that's what mine was because the abscess of the inflamed tissue.
Speaker 2:So they just gave me a script and said take this three times a day for a week.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's weird.
Speaker 2:Okay, whatever, getting our shit together. Next thing, you know, I'm going to come in with some braces or something. I'm going to get it all fixed and I'm cheap, so I'll have all the silver showing in the box get your rubber bands changed for the holidays and there's a line do all this.
Speaker 2:I'm like, how much more is that? It's like twice as much. Nah, I'm good, I'll just just put on that silver and or whatever and give me a bag of rubber bands. I need to. Exactly, it's like four july, I guess. The red, white and blue ones, right, halloween, black and orange. Yeah, it's actually it's like two years. It's fine, I'll rotate. I got I got. I got holidays coming up. I can get some pastels for Easter, thanksgiving, browns, yellows and oranges.
Speaker 1:That's what my wife did when she had them.
Speaker 2:She had like red and green for christmas and shit oh yeah, that's actually pretty cool, although I will admit I don't. I don't give a shit, like my bottom teeth. I know they've been like this for 50 years. Uh I, why am I? Why am?
Speaker 1:I not. If they ain't hurting you, they're not messing with you.
Speaker 2:No not at all. I could eat properly with them. It's like it was messing up the way I ate or overbite. If it was like grinding, if there was actual issues, then yeah I would have, especially at this point now that I've um, I'm on the track, I'm good. So yeah, y'all. I was like aiming to get dentists forever because I had like trauma when I was a kid. The shit hurt and all this. I didn't know. Everything's changed. Like they numb everything. You don't feel anything. If it's super bad, they'll knock your ass out, uh, and do some stuff. I didn't know any of that stuff because I was like being too afraid to go for the last however many years. So, yeah, I was like mm-mm. So then got that abscess started hurting, went in, they did what they had to do over the last three weeks and it was honestly feels fantastic, feels good to do Follow up in a little bit. So yay me. So all y'all out there, if y'all had trauma when you were younger, don't worry about it. They handled that. It's no longer a problem?
Speaker 1:yeah, dennis is not as scary as it used to be when we were kids. No, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2:So after my first visit I I you know sweating in the chair just freaking out what's gonna happen. Then they did what they had to do and I was like, yeah, but I didn't feel anything. What's what's going on?
Speaker 1:with this. What do?
Speaker 2:you mean right, it's like yeah, we're, we're, we're done, you can leave. I'm like what? Uh, don't get me wrong. It's not the most comfortable when the numbing shit wears off, but it doesn't hurt, it would just right. Yeah, it depends on what's getting done, like the last couple was just the cavity fills and now it is pretty straightforward. The worst part was, honestly, is the numbing didn't wear off until like six, seven hours later.
Speaker 1:That was the worst part you try to drink some water, just dribbling down your chin Yep.
Speaker 2:You just spill it all over you. I'm leaving my head back.
Speaker 1:Let me try a straw. Nope, you can't even suck, no more.
Speaker 2:You're like you had a stroke or something. You just look like a stroke victim. You really do so I'm all leaving back and doing the portals of my mouth and whatever makes it makes it. That's kind of what I did. So it was pretty funny. But no man, I could not believe when I was done. I could not believe when I was done. I could not believe, like, like, what, like, seriously, that was that's it. They the whole prenum Yep, it's a godsend. That whole needle they put in your gums and shit. You don't feel it because they prenum you Nope.
Speaker 1:You feel the pressure Like from the pushing a little bit. That's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you don. And uh, yeah, now it's like, oh, let me schedule everything. Like, what else is wrong with me? It's like, what can we do? It's like, oh, let's do this. Okay, I'm fine, do it. It's like I mean, yeah, but I'm taking care of it now even got myself a water pig. Hells, yeah, and actually it's a cool place to like give us a google review and uh, we'll give you a water pick. I'm like what? I'm like okay, so yeah, so sure enough. It was like I didn't show, I didn't feel shit, I did it. I was like, yeah, everything was great. They didn't shame me for not being in here in a while.
Speaker 1:It was like some of them. Do they like some of them do talk shit, though.
Speaker 2:No, they got a straight five star just for not fucking with me. So I was like all right, cool. And then then I'll do all right, cool. And then then I'll do my um follow up in June and then I'll do because it's been so long I'll do every three months instead of six until I'm good to go, and then it'll switch to the proper six and then I'm and I'll keep up with it going forward. Like I said, if I'd have went a long time ago Anyhow, Well, your tooth actually started in Japan.
Speaker 1:We were about to take you to a Japanese dentist. Dude for real.
Speaker 2:I did look one up too. I looked it up to see if there was American speaking, and there were. I was like I want to make sure I'm covered, just in case I had to go. Jack had a bunch of Tylenol and that honestly helped and I was kind of fine with the Tylenol.
Speaker 1:But just to make sure this is actually a good segue.
Speaker 2:That Sunday night after the celebration I separated from the pack and, like I was saying, I went home, went back to the hotel, took a nap, showered and went and took the train down to Osaka. The first thing I did when I got to Osaka was go to probably Family Mart or Law Center and I picked up their version of I guess it wasn't one of those, it was kind of like the equivalent of a Walgreens. Whatever store it was, it was like a Walgreens. And I picked up ibuprofen so that way I could do the cycle of acetaminophen and ibuprofen. So I got that and for the rest of the Japan trip I was actually fine going back and forth with the Tylenol and the ibuprofen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you didn't do much after that.
Speaker 2:After that I did that. I think it was fine. After I got the Tylenol stuff from you on Saturday I think it was when I first got it, because I think we still had your bottle for a while, so that's when everything—I was like oh, I don't really feel this all that much, so I'm good to go.
Speaker 2:So my plan after Celebration and everything was to go to Osaka. I was going to take the night bus, get there and do whatever. To take the night bus, uh, get there and do whatever. So I get to osaka first, uh, and I figure out where my bus station is, which is not too far from the actual, it's in shibuya. Uh, I was still in tokyo y'all trying to get to osaka, so I went to shibuya. Uh, no, shinjuku, shinjuku, yeah yeah, yeah, we did that on on wednesday.
Speaker 2:So I went to shinjjuku and found out where the bus station was. It was like down the block from where the train station was. So that was no problem. Like okay, I know where I'm going, good to go. And I had about three hours to kill, four hours to kill. It was about three or four hours to kill. So I was like, all right, let me kill it. So that's when I went to the store, grabbed what I needed from there and then I went to the touristy area and I was looking for like okay, I need something to eat. What do I want to do for dinner? And I knew I wanted ramen because I hadn't had a ramen yet since I've been there and I know in Japan it's like street food, peasant food. I don't care, I like it. I would have had it every day. So I'm walking around. The touristy area Was wild. It was super packed and you could definitely tell Not a whole lot of Japanese people down there.
Speaker 1:A lot of Australians.
Speaker 2:Because it's close for them and Europeans. I might have overheard speaking Listening with an American accent. I might have overheard speaking listening with an American accent, quote-unquote accent. I might have come across five or six people. Everybody else is Australian or European and maybe a handful of Japanese people, because I imagine, living in Vegas when I lived in Vegas, we'll be a tourist every once in a while. Right, it's like, oh, let's just go with a friend or whatever, let's be a tourist and check out that. So the Japanese people that were there were probably that, but I'm talking maybe 15, 20% of the people that I came across were Japanese. It was crazy, that's crazy. The night it was getting bright, stuff everywhere, food options everywhere. It was wild.
Speaker 2:So I make my rounds, I go up one street and then there's alley. You will learn this if y'all go there. There are alleys inside of alleys, inside of alleys. So you just walk and then you turn here and then you turn. It's like I don't know where I am, but you basically you're in the middle of the shopping district. You just don't know how you got there because you just kept walking through alleys.
Speaker 2:Um, eventually I did walk around everything first. Uh, I found a place early on in the walk but was like, let me see if there's something else that stands out and blah, blah, blah. So nothing, walked around, came back to that place. It was super cool. I was able to charge my. I got in a small place. There's like a table for four, a table for two and then like bar seating. For the rest of the way it was a very small place, got in no problem. There was like three seats open on the bar so I grabbed one, grabbed myself a beer. I think I might have got a whiskey, can't remember which. I got one of the two with my water and my ramen and some extra pork for my ramen, extra meat. Yeah, they had charging stations right there at the table so you could just plug in. So I did. You know, I was like I assumed that there was going to be charging on the bus and I did have my backup battery backup. So I was fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, food was great, loved it, got in, got out. So that's kind of the thing with ramen. They don't expect people to hang out too long. They want to clear the table so they can cycle in, cycle out, out. So I went back out, did some more walking around for a bit. The whole process took like a couple hours walking around and eating the whole thing, like, all right, let me, let me go back to the bus station and just I'm done here. I had about an hour and a half to kill. I was like, well, there's nothing I really want to do, so I'll just head back. So I start heading back to the bus station and I crossed the the street and there's a big crowd at this corner and then I cross the street. All of a sudden I'm looking at people looking behind me. They're looking. I'm like, ok, what the hell are you looking at?
Speaker 1:At the same time.
Speaker 2:that was my first thought. I ain't gonna lie, that was my first thought. I'm like I don't know. I can't remember what's here and what's not.
Speaker 1:But I was like what the hell is that?
Speaker 2:about. At the same time, when I crossed the street, on that side of the street was some Japanese street performer I guess they call them idols out there and he was just rapping. He was just doing his thing, trying to push his CD that he had for about $12. I was like, all right, but what got my attention was obviously he was doing his thing, but the people looking up. So I turn around and I look up and it happens to be the corner where the holographic cat is on the billboard, the big billboard that you may have seen in YouTube videos people. So it was super cool. I'm not going to lie, this cat was adorable. The biggest problem I had with it was it would be like the cat for 30 seconds and then like 5 minutes of commercials, and then the cat for 20 seconds and then 5 minutes of commercials. It was like what the hell? So I was getting clips live.
Speaker 2:YouTube dude for real. It was so funny because I'm sitting there and we had a discord chat going for our group. So either between that or Jack directly, I couldn't remember, but I would take the 30 second video, then I'd send it. I'd take a 30 second video, that I'd send it, and at the same time I'm sitting there bopping up and down to this idol on the street with his Japanese M&M doing his thing and I'm just like all alright, this is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:And then I stepped a little closer to the street so I can get more pictures of the cat and everything. I ended up doing this for like half an hour. I was like I don't have anything else to do. Wrong, I spent 30 minutes just checking out this cat and listening to the dude rap. When all was said and done, I bought his CD. I think I talked about it in an earlier video.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think I showed the CD.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I still haven't played it yet. My old laptop does have a CD player, so that's good, so I can play it. I just haven't done it yet. So if it's good, jack, don't laugh because you're going to get it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to burn it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to rip it and then pass it over to you. I'm like, here you go, but it was good music. I'm not going to lie. The beat was good. He sounded good. I was just like, well, if I'm sitting here bopping to it let me make this help my brother out.
Speaker 2:So yeah, exactly so, finished that up, got to the bus station, went to information, just so I knew where I was going, and that was pretty simple. The lady just told me, like hey, you're busting that. You know this letter, this number. Ok, so I went and got some snacks from the vending machine.
Speaker 2:So I had stuff for the trip, uh-huh, got me some pokey sweat, uh-huh I think. I got pokey sweat and some grape, some grape drink. I mean, come on, you know, I got some great drink. And then I went to my spot and just kind of sat there and I had at that point maybe about 45 minutes to kill people watching, or was it decent?
Speaker 2:people watching, since it was all touristy if I stayed inside, it was because I was when I did the information thing. I stayed inside for was because I was in when I did the information thing. I stayed inside for a bit, went to the bathroom. Um, uh, oh, my god, the women's line, the the men's line, uh, no problem, right, whatever, right, the women's line. You thought it's bad? No, it, that women's line? I think. I think I counted it was 47 steps. Wow, so, yeah. So when I left the men's, there was a line coming out. Then, when it got to the straightaway part, I was like what the hell? So I started counting and it was 47 steps. So I got to the back of the women's line. Wow, it was. That line was crazy. And the thing is they're like that I was. I think the bus station was on like the sixth floor or something like that fourth floor. Just go down a floor there's like there go to that one.
Speaker 2:I don't think these women knew that or whatever. I not only knew it because I came up right, so I saw it coming up. I was going up the long escalator straight to number four but you could look to the side and it's like, oh cool, the baskins here about them. But and I would have done that if the guys was crazy, but it was fine. So, oh my god, yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 2:Um, in there there were some decent people watching some. Just some, some characters maybe looked a little. I'm like all right, that's a little odd, but whatever. But once I got inside to where my bus was, where the waiting spot for my bus, um, it was just people chill. I was polite and like I moved at one point so two people get set together, just the way I was seated. What broke him? I was like, oh, let me move over, here, you two can sit together and they they didn't really speak much english, but you could tell they knew what you were doing yeah, yeah, and they did the whole you know bow thing like thank you, thank you, um.
Speaker 2:So here's what was trippy for me, man, people talk about Japanese on time, their schedule, their punctuality. This was no joke. My bus wasn't until 11.30 and this was probably like 10.40. Well, there was an 11 o'clock bus coming and 10.50 on the dot that 10 minutes, everything is a 10-minute wait. 10.50 on the dot that 10 minutes, everything is a 10-minute wait. 10.50 on the button. A bus pulls up right there and there's the announcements being made, people checking your tickets and everything. All those people lined up and got on the bus and then, as soon as that 10 minutes was up, 11 o'clock hit, boom, gone. It's like if you're running down the sidewalk and this is your bus, too bad, they were not going to wait for you. That didn't happen gone. It's like if you're running down the sidewalk and if this is your bus, too bad they're. They were not gonna wait for you. That didn't happen.
Speaker 1:I didn't see that happen to anybody, but that was they knew they knew that the bus is gonna leave, so they were on time. I mean we experienced that with the train, though. I mean it was true that happened to you right, yeah like if that train's supposed to be there, you better be on it. So we started that became part of our train routine. Okay, it says this train's at 740. Whatever trains are at 740, we're on it because that's got to be the right one.
Speaker 1:Yep, and I think that punctuality I think we doubted it once and that's that fucked us up for a little bit, but after that we were like, not if it's here, if we're here at 740 and the trains are at 740, we just need to trust it and get on the train.
Speaker 2:And remember that couple that had just arrived. When we were leaving that Saturday, I told them the same thing. That was one of the things that I passed on. I was like, if you're not sure, just look at the clock. They are very punctual here and if you're supposed to be on a 740 train and it's 736, that is not your train unless it stays there for a minute, because sometimes they would stay there.
Speaker 1:I told them, unless it sits there, the doors are open, it's not moving then they're waiting for this and it will leave at 740, so you better get on it.
Speaker 2:Yes, get on it now because that happened to us a few times we're like I'm not sure if that's because we're supposed to be on this time, and then we go through it and it was like okay, it's waiting, so it must be ours. So we did that and we learned it again. It probably took us. So, honestly, I would say that sunday, because I took the remember I took the train back by myself from celebration to the hotel and then down to shinjuku, yeah, and I had no issues that day, that sunday, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would say it's probably a three-day process and by the time that third day came around it was a cake saturday when we left and when I bounced around to four different cities looking for magic cards uh, I was bouncing all over the train system and it was clockwork I was like, nope, I got this. I know exactly. I didn't make one error. Um, the hardest part was probably the bigger stations finding the exit it was. It was like where the hell is the exit.
Speaker 1:Am I going? To the right because like they have different exits, like there's a center exit and the west exit. You're like I don't see a sign for I'm looking for the west exit but I don't see it. But you know they'm looking for the west exit but I don't see it. But you know what? They all merge pretty well. If you just go upstairs and you look around, you'll see where your train is I was just going to say, but they're pretty good about that.
Speaker 2:If you just go to one of the main areas, you will see the signage and you'll have arrows everywhere. If there's an opportunity for a split, any kind of fork, there will be a sign to tell you which way you're supposed to go. The hardest part, I think it took us until I think it was day five, until we realized that the arrows like whatever platform, whatever you want to need, the billboard is pretty big and sometimes the platform you want on this side, the arrows on this side, but there's an arrow next to this one because it's on the other side but it's a different billboard. It won't match up. So you have to make sure you're within the right billboard. But it took us like until Tuesday to figure that out. We're going to Ueno.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so it was just fascinating. I'm not going to lie, I was more watching the train, and that's the train, the bus system and the timing. I started watching the other buses after that and my OCD was so happy just watching these trains go exactly on time. It was just like I just had her head tilted Like, oh, this is so beautiful, just to watch it. It was great. Um, and then my my turn. It came around.
Speaker 2:So, which means 1120, uh, the bus popped up, I bus popped up, I I went in no big deal and it and I did not do the, the quote-unquote, uh, first class bus. I guess it's like it's a bus that only seats 11 but you have your own private pod and everything to sleep. I just took a regular, uh, what's it called? Uh for a bus? The tour type bus, right, yeah, like a greyhound, yeah, that leans back. Nicely, they did, did have power and everything. So, as a matter of fact, I charged my brick and my phone at the same time. So it was pretty simple, honestly, pretty comfortable, pretty easy. And then we're on the road.
Speaker 2:They made announcements. This is a true story. They made announcements and they really weren't doing English conversion of the announcements. They ended up doing them for stocks later on, but for the actual whatever the guy was saying, I had no idea. So I actually pulled out my phone, did the Google translate and was cause, I was right, every seat has a mic above it, so I was just listening to that and then I'd look and see and then I'd go back. I'd miss a few things cause in the in-between, but overall it was like we're gonna do this, we're gonna stop here, we're gonna have a break. I there's the stuff that I picked up and and all this. I was like all right, that's, that's super cool. And that was probably the most I used. Google translate was on this bus trip, um, just so I could hear the announcement.
Speaker 2:So so, yeah, off we went. It was great. We stopped somewhere, I don't know after. After a couple hours I slept. I mean, almost the entire time I slept, so I couldn't tell you too much about it Until, like I want to say I don't know, like four hours, five hours into it, we actually hit a stop that had a—the best—it was like going to a Bucky's. To tell you the truth, the Bucky's in Japan. It had a big-ass store store like a big ass rest stop area. I did get off the bus there, went to the bathroom. I didn't need any food. They had food available, even though it was like four in the morning. Everything was available. It was great. Before I left, I got off the bus I looked for the like the call sign of the bus. I took a picture of it. So I because, because there were probably 12 other buses there, if not more, there were a picture of it. So I was busting because, because there were probably 12 other buses there, yeah, if not more.
Speaker 2:There were a lot of buses at this time. How it happens that they're all there at the same time, I have no idea. You know how it happens well that's true purpose they're so efficient. They probably had that store only open for those hour and a half or hour. That there's. They don't waste time and boom, but you? But you're probably right, that's probably exactly what it was.
Speaker 1:They warmed all the hot food, all the hot drinks. They timed it for those buses to show up.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I wouldn't doubt that, because there were too many there for that to be coincidence. If two or three buses were there, that's fine. There was just 12 in my row, which is why I took the picture of of the bus but there were.
Speaker 2:There were others around. I'm just saying there were 12 in my row, um, so I obviously I lined up where I was so I knew where I like when I get out of the store I can line back up, and then when I did, I actually I'm glad I did that. I think I would have guessed correctly, but I did look at my phone photo to make sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was also like three in the morning, so you don't want to be messing with that. Three in the morning. No, not at all Not at all.
Speaker 2:It was crazy. So I did that, got back on the bus and, honestly, I slept the rest of the way. So not much action going on there. I slept the rest of the way and then we had three stops. I think there were supposed to be three stops, but everybody on the bus like half the people got off at the first stop, in Kyoto, I think, is where we went.
Speaker 2:And then from there we were going to Osaka because the next stop was supposed to be Universal Studios Japan. I guess I was smart and did this ahead of time. I booked because I was going to the World's Fair. Right, my stop was actually at the World's Fair. I thought I was going to the bus station because I looked up how to get the train from there to.
Speaker 1:World's.
Speaker 2:Fair Turns out I guess I accidentally, on purpose, got it right and they dropped us off right at right at the World's Fair entrance. It was super cool. Um, at that point it was like once we skipped universal news, japan. I opened the curtains. The couple across from me, they opened their curtains. The guy had to show me how to do it. I was like I don't understand how to use this thing and he was like I was. I looked at him and I pointed just like this one he's like. He shook his head and he pointed. So I did that, opened it up. That way I could see the kind of like as we're driving in. So that last half hour or so we all the people who were who were still there that were going to usj, um or uh, we kind of just had all of our windows open to look. But then the bus this is where, again, I was using my translator. He said we're not going to usj because nobody left on the bus was going there.
Speaker 2:That's cool, yeah. So I was like all right, we're going straight to Expo. So we got there. It opens at 9. We got there at 8.15.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's perfect I found the bus?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was. It was great timing and you pre-ordered your ticket. Yeah, matter of fact, I pre-ordered my ticket for the early bird. So instead of 50 for the ticket, if you went within the first two weeks of it opening, your ticket was 23 bucks. Nice, so, yeah, so I I had a pre. I had a pre-bought ticket for 23 bucks to get in. I was good to go. I did I between the night bus, the expo ticket and then the bullet train coming back. I did all that in like one night in March, just knocked, knocked it all off. Um, yeah, so got there, found a big ass bathroom, went and washed up and did all that, went, went to find a vending machine to get some more pokey sweat, cause I drink, I drink my stuff and I knew I had another 45 minute wait, so I was like all right. So the way they did it, I was probably the first 50 people in line when all was said and done by the time they opened. Yeah, there's probably 5,000 people in line. It was crazy, but it was kind of cool it was.
Speaker 2:They moved this in sections. It was like the whole zig zag thing going. Whatever they took, everybody moved them in over here. It was like all right, then we waited 10 minutes. Then they moved this in over here like all right. Then we waited 10 minutes, then they moved this in by the uh, actual gate entry so they could scan our scanner tickets and everything. But it was weird that I I mean obviously well-organized. I mean they split it up where entrance for this people you guys come here. And then there was somebody like off to the side. Once they saw that that line was too many, they said, okay, your group, now come with us. So they were trying to even it out for all the different entrances. Again, the efficiency was ridiculous. So, yeah, perfectly fine, went in.
Speaker 2:Once 9 o'clock came, everybody came in. I was in within five minutes you know less than that and just was like I have no idea where to go. The only thing I knew I wanted to do was check out the Lacker Globe. It was a globe that was done over the last couple of years. I don't know if it was specifically for this, but they were bringing it to the Expo. It was the world at night. So it was like if you were in space and you saw the world lit up at night with all the lights and everything. It was like this is super cool, and I saw that back in February, I think, when I was looking up what I wanted to do at Expo, and that was really the only thing that stood out. Everything else I didn't want to do all the reservations and wait in line for this and this performance. I'm not into that.
Speaker 2:I just want to go say that I've been here, walk around have some food and then leave and go hang out in Osaka before I take the train and they're done that butts t-shirt. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. I did make it over to a couple of the general booths. They had big warehouses and it's like warehouse 1, 2, 3, 4. And the different countries had a small 10 by 20 display area and they could do what they wanted in that 10 by 20. So I looked through two of them. It was super entertaining. I liked learning some of the culture of the other countries and everything.
Speaker 2:And as soon as that was done, I went and asked for info to where the globe was and they sent me on my way. It was like, yeah, it's over here. It was super cool, this big globe. It's in a case, obviously so it's not to be messed with. They went. I watched all the videos that were as I walked up to it to talk about how they did it and again, it was over a couple of years of different techniques they did trying to math it all out to make sure they had everything right. Yeah, uh, I believe it's available online. So if you guys get a chance.
Speaker 1:I wonder if it's um. You say it's lacquer Cause. Uh, we were at the museum we went to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah we went to yeah, yeah, it was that technique?
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, because they kept showing that video during the panels, like the commercials between the panels about this guy making a Darth Vader lacquer. It's called glitter art or something. He was making a Darth Vader of it. Oh, that would be cool to see. Oh, they had it.
Speaker 1:Was it done? Yeah, you could have bought it done. Yeah, you could have bought it. It was the the headphone guys. Oh, it was like the god, fifteen thousand dollar headphones or something, because they're only like ten of them made or something I didn't know they were that much dude but I mean, you watch the videos of how they made that earth. So it's the same thing, obviously on a smaller scale, because I think it just goes on the side of the headphones okay, but um, but yeah, they only made like a handful of them.
Speaker 1:They're like 10 grand or something good lord, and you know what.
Speaker 2:They probably sold out too, oh 100 dude. That thing looks sweet as hell there's people with that kind of money that would have. Just, I mean, look, if I won lotto I wouldn't, I wouldn't care 10 shit. If you won lotto, yeah, it's like all right, I'm good. But I was like. I was like I spent ten grand. My entire trip, including travel, was just under ten grand.
Speaker 2:So I was like man, so I buy some headphones or come back again for real twice right especially since I was going to say actually japan itself would have been cheap if I didn't spend like thirty five hundred dollars. A celebration, oh yes, celebration was expensive, japan was cheap. Japan was cheap as F dude, but celebration is where I'm looking at. I was going through looking at my receipts, my budget and everything. Like you know how me, my OCD, I'm mapping everything out.
Speaker 1:I'm all like OK, 50, 50 of my money was spent that celebration. Yeah, 100, yeah, well, even afterwards you remember we're going around shopping.
Speaker 2:I'm like I don't need to buy anything but everything's celebration. I was when we were done. Disney was it? Yeah, and for me anyway, and for you. We didn't spend, obviously, the girls went yeah, the girls went crazy yeah yeah, the girls went ape at disney, but for disney stuff.
Speaker 1:But I think you and I were like I need a pen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, like that magnet. Is anybody seen the magnets? I need a magnet. It's like 300 yen, it's like two dollars, but you're not. You're not kidding though, man. When we were done with celebration, it really was just Because we talked about it, right, it was like you have anything else left to buy and it was like just whatever we get at Disney, I'm like that's a good point, and we obviously knew we were going to go to Donkey.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And maybe at Daiso, but those are cheap Like dollar stores.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're dollar stores, it right? I'm like, well, I was, we'll go get snacks, kit kats, whatever, yeah, but I mean, once we were done, honestly, once we were done with celebration, the first day after we got through the store I was like well, well, the store and the sponsor pins yeah, yeah, once our pins were done, I was like all right, I guess I'm good.
Speaker 2:Yeah because it was basically we each spent about $1,800 at the store the first day and then another $500 in sponsor pins, because almost everything was between $40 and $50. And we had 10 of them. One of them you could buy outright, One of them was free if you just did their thing. But we didn't do that until the next day. It was like $2,500 drop day one and then after that was whatever we we wanted to pick up afterwards, whatever pins big pins yeah.
Speaker 2:Roosevelt, so it still added up. So it was like it was like seriously, it was like I think I think I spent three grand at Celebration and then like maybe 500 bucks everywhere else, yeah, for sure so it was really weird how that played out, but I guess not unexpected. That usually out goes when we go to these celebrations yeah you go to the store, drop 2 000 right away, and then it's usually unless there's something yeah it's, yeah, pretty quiet after that, so, uh, but not too bad so so, yeah, everybody loves your shirt, though afterwards your uh, world's Fair shirt.
Speaker 1:Every time you wore that, everybody was like, oh, you went.
Speaker 2:So there's this mascot. It looks like a creepy thing with a flower head I have no idea, he has like 30 eyes on him or some shit.
Speaker 2:Right, I should go grab that shirt, just so y'all can see what the hell this was. So I got this thing and his name was like should go grab that shirt, just so y'all can see what the hell this was. So I. So I got this thing and his name was like makioki or moki, something like that, and all the people in tokyo and this is obviously when I come back from osaka. I wore it the next day or the day after you weren't disneyland dude the first, oh is it disneyland yeah, you weren't to disneyland, everybody was stopping.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you're right it, it was Disneyland, because I was wearing the Celebration badge art shirt down in Ueno and Shibuya. But yeah, so disneyland, we're getting ahead of ourselves. But yeah, disney, I had this shirt on and these people love the mascot. Apparently they it's. Every stop we made like to get food or a drink or something, even the staff just getting us through the line at disney, they were just all stopping us and they're like, oh, and they say his name or whatever. And then they're like osaka. And I'm like, yeah, I went monday. And they're like, oh, okay. And and I'm like, yeah, I went Monday. And they're like, oh okay.
Speaker 1:And they were all super excited about this damn character.
Speaker 2:It was crazy, it was a bit wild, I didn't see it coming. Because I'm thinking well, it's just a thing, right. It's like it's everywhere. You don't even have to go to Osaka for it, you can go to some of the gift shops at the airport Donkey had the freaking lollipops and the stuff or some shit, yeah yeah, so it wasn't like it was a big deal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, but they loved yeah, they thought it was a big deal, uh-huh and that was and that was. Actually I should have bought it early on. When I first walked in, I went right right to the gift shop because, again, having done this, I know the rules. But they didn't really have anything I liked at this particular gift shop and it was the opposite side where I needed to leave. So I knew when I needed to leave it was a different exit because that's where the train station was. So eventually I ended up at like. Later in the day I asked somebody if there's another gift shop and they said yeah, and they pointed on the map that I had it was over here. I'm like, oh, perfect, that's where the exit was I didn't need to take. So at the end of the day is when I did all my shopping for. For that, I mean I didn't really get a whole lot. It was like a like my usual a pin a magnet like my shirt.
Speaker 2:It was kind of good to go, but the fair, like I said, the expo itself super busy, a lot of people there. There's this mile and a half track that goes around the entire thing. I walked it. I thought it'd be kind of cool to do. It got some pictures from up there looking up over the ocean. Some pictures inside. You get looked up top looking down. So it was, it was super cool.
Speaker 1:It's one of these things where you could probably probably spend a week there, like five days, seven days oh yeah if you really want to catch everything yeah, if we live there, season pass would be easy sell on me yep, uh, the fact that it goes april to october.
Speaker 2:Uh, living there I would have done the same thing, I would have got a pass and then, like every so I like you know what I'm bored, I'm gonna take the bullet train if I'm in tokyo. We're not doing anything this weekend yep, yep and Yep and just hang out there. Might do one of those cubbyhole whatever they're called capsule hotels.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Like if I was living there, go down there on a Saturday morning, hang out, hit a capsule hotel, go out on Sunday and then bullet train back up. Yep, if I live there, but there to do just watching, like all the lines too, because if you want to do one of the things, even if you have reservations, so so does other. Everybody else, right, that also reserved. So when I was up top, uh, on that walk bridge and looking down, I walked around and I got to the part where, oh, there's the usa one. That was probably the longest line of all of them.
Speaker 2:I was not expecting that that's interesting because, especially, we were like, oh, like, oh, I hate US, I hate US, I hate US, whatever Wrong, not in Japan. They don't that line granted, I understand there's a lot of tourists there too, but it was. They actually had to do an overflow line. They had their zigzag up and down by their pavilion and then there was a big sidewalk. Then you had to cross the sidewalk, then there was another line and sidewalk, then there was another line, and then they, as I was watching, they were putting up another set of zigzags. Wow, uh, because there are too many people to go into the usa. One, it was like holy crap, uh, no idea what's in there. Uh, obviously I didn't, I didn't bother with that. Uh, I, the only ones I actually went into were those two, uh, where you could just check out the different, the 10 by 20s of what each country did and and some of them actually had some representatives from the country there to talk to you about their country.
Speaker 2:So there's probably three or four that I did. I mean, I was trying to respect their time as well, so I chatted with them and learned what I could you know about about some of their stuff, and I was like, all right, this is super cool. And then the, then the globe at night, the world at night. That's the only ones I actually went into once.
Speaker 1:I was done with all that again.
Speaker 2:Keep in mind. I had a bullet train back at like 6, 30, 6 o'clock so I and I wanted to check out osaka as well, some of the touristy stuff, so I went and found some place to eat lunch. They had this food court. Oh my god, everything looked good. They had the wagyu, they had takoyaki for the octopus balls, ramen, sushi, all your, all your basic stuff it was just they had it all.
Speaker 2:They had everything in this area. It was super cool. I ended up with, um, I think, like I know, I got the takoyaki from the first. As soon as I walked in I saw that and was like, well, I'm in Osaka, Well, takoyaki was quote unquote born in Osaka, so I had to have you know takoyaki from there. And then I found, I think, maybe some kind of noodle dish or rice dish or whatever it was. So I ended up getting that and my melon soda, because I was drinking melon soda the entire time.
Speaker 1:That melon fancy was your jam Yep, if it was available, I was drinking it.
Speaker 2:There was no question. So I did that, went outside a couple and you know it's obviously exposed a lot of students and everything. I sat down and then a couple of students came and sat down by me and we didn't really chat or anything, but I was minding my business, they were doing their thing. And so did that. And then did it, did around, like I said, worked my way over to the um, uh, the exit and the and the gift shop, and then found the train station. It was super cool Cause I was like I'll be making sure I'm doing this right. So I found a person and said, uh, I'm just, I'm going to make sure I'm doing this right. So I found a person and said I'm just, and I can't remember the name of it.
Speaker 2:It started with a Y, but whatever the train station was. So and I just like I just showed my map on the thing and he's like, oh, and he pointed All I had to do was go out the exit and he said, and then go left. This was literally like on site. I walked out the exit, turned left and then it was like a sidewalk to the entrance to the station to go downstairs into the train station. It was like wow, they picked the perfect spot yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anybody going to this thing, just take that train station. So if I, even if the bus didn't drop me off up front and I went to the main Osaka- station.
Speaker 2:I would have been taking that train right there and it would let me out right there. That was like, oh man, that's cool. So so, yeah, pretty easy, went there, matter of fact, didn't have to wait more than a couple of minutes, my train was already. The one I needed was the one that was coming. Oh perfect, jumped on that, went to Osaka. Osaka proper, I guess, osaka proper, I guess. And that's when all the touristy shit you see on the YouTube videos, where everybody has the big signs of their food or the person or whatever. I got down there and was like, yep, just like the videos, and I was the tourist, big old smile on my face, eyes, big it was great I did.
Speaker 2:I took a picture of every one of those signs that I had. I took a picture of it and then I found I guess it's real. I don't know what it's called, but it's real popular. It's like fruit on a stick. And the fruit is like candied. And there was, I grabbed the one with like strawberries and grapes just to get the variety, and it was.
Speaker 2:I grabbed the one with like strawberries and grapes just to get the variety, and it was super good. This thing was probably 500 yen, so like three and a half dollars. Super yummy. And a crepe, because I got a crepe at Celebration and I wanted to get another one, because I don't know what's about Japanese and their crepes, but they're all over the place and they're fantastic. I tried to get one the night of when I was doing my Shinjuku visit, but they closed as I was walking up. So it's like, oh, that strawberry banana one looked really good though, so I got the fruit stick.
Speaker 2:I stayed there because they had a spot for your stick, for trash and napkins and everything Like we talked about last time y'all. There's like trash cans nowhere, nowhere. If you buy something someplace, they have a trash can and they really frown upon you bringing other trash to their trash can, and I knew that. So I stayed and ate my fruit at that booth. I mean it was like a little cart on the outside, but they had a storefront. I mean there was a building, so I did outside, but they had a. They had a storefront, right, I mean there was, there was the building so, but did all that. I don't think, um, so I had lunch at there, yeah, so I didn't. So I didn't do anything, uh, food wise, other than the snack type stuff. But yeah, I, if I was hungry I would have found one of those places like the one with the big crab on it. I probably would have went there because I had a big crab on it.
Speaker 2:I like crab, but uh, yeah, did the touristy stuff, did all that, walked around it's probably three hours, uh, give or take, taking pictures, eating that and just again being a tourist enjoying the space, um, I would, I think I would like to go back there and spend more time there, for sure, uh, but it was fine for what.
Speaker 1:I knew my plan I knew what I wanted to do I did it.
Speaker 2:And then I wanted to get to the station early for the bullet train because if I missed that I was screwed and I knew I'd be screwed. So I got there about an hour early. I worked my way over there. It was I'm not going to lie, it was confusing. This station was huge. People talk about Tokyo Station and I got lost in Tokyo Station once. It was confusing, this station was huge. People talk about Tokyo Station and I got lost in Tokyo Station once. It was just matter of fact, the other end of this trip, because it was so damn big man. It was just like sign be damned. It was just trying to get through all that stuff. There's a mall underneath, in the basement of Tokyo Station. I didn't even get to it. This place was so big. Everything was fine. I had an assigned seat for the bullet train. That's how I did not do the no reservation card which you can do, then it's first come, first served.
Speaker 2:To get a seat I was like, nah, let me make sure I got a seat. I picked, it didn't matter, there's no extra cost for it. I picked, it didn't matter, there's no extra cost for it. I picked Mount Fuji side, but I knew I wasn't Going to see it because it would be night time when I was coming back. But you never knew.
Speaker 1:So I was like.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Maybe it's daylight savings and I'll see something, but no.
Speaker 1:Northern lights or some shit going on Exactly something.
Speaker 2:But no, it was. I think I did grab At the station some snacks and some more poSweat. That just goes. If you'll have me say I grabbed snacks, just assume it included PokeSweat, because I basically grabbed the bottle.
Speaker 1:I'm about to sign up for a subscription on Amazon for that stuff.
Speaker 2:Just have it come to show up, just rotation. So the bullet train, it was an 8-hour bus ride. Eight and a half, let's see 1130 to 815. So eight hours, 45 minutes, with obviously stops. So let's just say eight hours on the bus to get from Tokyo to Osaka, osaka to Tokyo. Two hours, 15 minutes. That bullet train, obviously a wall line 150, 150 miles, 200 miles an hour it was.
Speaker 2:It was super cool at this point, walking around all day, I'm tired. So I stayed awake for like 20 minutes to see everything outside and just to see how this thing is going. Next thing, you know, I'm waking up and we're like 30 minutes away from there were, I think there were two stops right before tokyo stations. Uh, did that and then, um, that's when, uh, if you remember the story, a couple weeks ago, after duke was talking about, I met up with him and his buddy so got off at tokyo station. It got super lost trying to get the hell out of there. First, because it was like I didn't. Because here's the thing, and it's same thing with what I got to osaka to get to the thing and it's same thing with what I got to osaka to get to the bullet train. It's a different. I don't want to say it's a different section. Oh, it's a different station. It's a different section in the station because the bullet train stuff's over here, regular train stuff's over here so I'm trying to work my way through it.
Speaker 2:And the same thing when you leave, I'm like. I'm like you know what, screw it, I'm just gonna walk this direction. And it worked. I walked that direction and finally I saw the signs to get up to the main station, and then the main station was freaking ginormous. So it was. It was like what the hell? But I made it through. I knew where duke and his buddy was. It was one stop, so I just got on the train, took one stop, and then I and it was like hey, here's where we are, gps to start walking over there. As as I got closer, he was like I'm going to come outside so you don't get lost, which is a good thing, because I got to a house split.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I couldn't tell what the GPS was saying. I went left. He was like, hey, lou, and he was right. So I turned around I was like, okay, thank God, and they were at an izakaya so they had food that they had ordered and whatnot and they had extras. So at this point obviously I'm hungry, right, because I didn't eat dinner yet. So I joined them at the table. We were only there about 15 minutes. I ate whatever leftovers they had. It was whatever it was. I couldn't tell you, I can't remember, but it was good. It beer while I was there as well, or a whiskey I can remember which. Um, that was cool. Then they wanted to go to a cigar bar. Uh, I don't smoke, but I don't mind going. And then I grew up my parents smoking, um, and my ex smoking, so it was like not a big deal. If you guys want to do this, don't not go just because of me. I'm still down as long as I can get a drink I don't care right, um, so we did.
Speaker 2:We left there, uh, went over to, uh, the cigar bar. I wasn't too far away, was there for about half an hour or so. We were going to stay longer, but we wanted to make sure it was late and Duke and I wanted to make sure we're going to get on the train to come back to the hotel, because they stop at like. I think we found out at one in the morning something like that yeah.
Speaker 2:So we didn't stay there too long because there was still another place. They wanted to go to one of those maid cafe-type places. That Duke's friend was a regular there and they knew him, so we would enjoy ourselves, right. So we did. We went there. Next, we had a couple of drinks. They bring out the little snacks. It was like choose your snack. I duke got him like mixed nuts or something like that, or chocolate, um, or cheese sausage, I think. Between the three of us we had a sausage, a cheese and some chocolates. So we just obviously split, split all of it and mix it all together. So that place was cool.
Speaker 2:The girls were super cute, uh, super friendly, obviously doing their jobs, uh, they're socializing there. When we got there, there was one girl playing darts with the dude, so she was doing her job. You know, hey, stick around, buy more shit, um. So we did. You know, we were there, uh, for the remainder of the time until it was like, hey, if we're gonna make our train, we need to leave, right, and we gave ourselves some leeway as well, so we missed the train. We knew we could take the next one, right. When all said and done, we left, came back and by the time we got back, the trains were going to stop in 15 minutes, so we made it plenty of time.
Speaker 1:And then as we did every night, you know it.
Speaker 2:Just like every night, we went to Lawson's, got some snacks, whatever alcohol we got, did that in the hotel room and then passed out, and that puts us into Tuesday. That's where we met back up. Duke was heading back out on Tuesday y'all, so Duke wasn't going to hang with us. He was going to wrap this stuff up, get everything together for him so he can make his way to the airport. I think he might have saw his friend that day before he left. I don't remember he did have saw his friend that day before he left. I don't remember.
Speaker 2:He didn't correct us next week on that one, but if not, he slept in. I woke him up to say bye because I didn't want to be rude, so we chatted for a few minutes and then, yeah, then I think that's when we took off to Reno, right yeah. So feel free to jump in in from there. I've been talking for half an hour so shit, um shit, so yeah.
Speaker 1:So we took the train down there again. We've mastered it pretty well at this point, so we got down there. Decent, um, it's a big ass park dude, yeah let me give you guys an idea.
Speaker 2:Uh, without even the details. We walked through this park and we walked for a while and at this, at one point we thought we were on the other side, where the museum, because we're heading to the museum, right, we thought we're over there. Now we're like a quarter of the way through the park.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was crazy huge I don't. The lake had a bunch of koi in it, so that was kind of of cool. I was like why is the water bubbling? And I looked and it's just all the fish just popping up to eat whatever's on the surface. We checked out one of the shrines oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I forgot you actually went inside, right? Yeah, little one wanted to go inside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you and wife stayed out. I think my big one came with us. She did too. Yeah, she was with you too, yeah, and the little one wanted to buy a charm or something. So she got like an eagle or something. I forget what it was exactly.
Speaker 2:Did you have to take your shoes off or anything?
Speaker 1:No, so where we walked, no, but if you went up on the platform, yes, but obviously we're not Buddhist or Shintoist or whatever shrine it was, so I didn't think it would be proper to go up there. You know, disrespect their religion, fair enough, I'll buy other trinkets to fund their religion, but I'm not going to disrespect their religion.
Speaker 2:I think, yeah, I think the shrines are, isn't the shrines Buddha and the temples were the Shintos? I think so yeah, it might be backwards but it's one, it's one of the other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:There was a temple and a shrine. I'm like, well, one Shinto, one's Buddha. Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we wandered over.
Speaker 2:Oh, there was the food on the side. We didn't. Did we get food from those? No, no, we looked at all of them. I don't think we, I don't think anybody, got food. That's right, because if we were gonna get one, we're talking about the big crab stick. Yes, it was huge, it was like king crab on a on a skewer the meat, and it was cheap too. Yeah, we just weren't hungry at the time yeah exactly I think we had breakfast.
Speaker 1:Did we have breakfast at the hotel that morning? I don't even remember. This would have been did it mean you?
Speaker 2:you let the day mean you did breakfast. I think so, yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that was the day, me and you did breakfast, but the rest of us joined. Everybody else joined us later. Yeah so, yeah, so we weren't hungry. That's why we weren't hungry, I think yeah, they didn't want to eat that. Yeah, not at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, that is when we saw that dude walking his monkeys, though that was badass. Um, I feel like we talked about a bunch of this already, though. Some of it we did, yeah, some of it, we did, but yeah, then we made our way up to we did what two museums.
Speaker 2:Two of the three. Yeah, there's like three buildings I guess each one is its own separate museum with different floors. To like the first one we were in. What was that? Six, yeah, five floors, yeah, it's a whole bunch of it was because we had five floors in a basement. We didn't go to go to the basement right yeah, we skipped the basement and in the middle building, and then there's a left, but we didn't make it to the left building because they closed we were there from basically like lunchtime to freaking five yeah those are five.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we closed them out, yeah, and then that's when we went to um the anime starbucks.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the girls, yeah, the girls did the starbucks yep yeah, it was the star I was like did we stop someplace? It was the star.
Speaker 1:Yep, you're right, you're right yeah, it's a big one wanted matcha. Everywhere we went, she's like oh, they have matcha time to stop. Yep, it's been 10. It's been 10 minutes since I've had one. Let's get one. Um, yeah, no we did something there's a zoo in ueno park and we did not have. There's a zoo too. Yeah, well, again, we could have spent at least two, three days there. Yep, it was crazy huge and again.
Speaker 2:We spent like five hours at the museum and didn't finish it yeah exactly that tells you all you need to know yeah and that's just one. That was at the main tokyo Museum. We didn't even go to the science and history one, nope. Or the art museum which is also in Ueno Park people, this is how big this is. It's also there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think there was even a school there too, because there were all those kids there.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, there was the school that was. I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:Freaking huge. It just means we have to go back to Japan eventually 2028.
Speaker 2:It's already on my calendar. Not even kidding. I talked to my niece, she's in. So if you've got nothing going on, don't plan a cruise in 2028, unless you want to do multiple things. I was like I'm going to go back in 2027. I'm like, no, I'm going to use all my money for Celebration LA.
Speaker 2:Yeah for sure, and not try to split my funds. And then 2028, there's nothing going on. So I was like I want to go to Europe and all this, like, no, as much as I want to go to Europe for the first time, I want to go to Japan for the second time. First, right, and part of it, honestly, is because we really didn't have but these two days to be tourists, exactly Tuesday, wednesday, because we did, you know, disney Thursday, friday. Then we did Celebration, you know Friday.
Speaker 1:Saturday.
Speaker 2:Sunday, so we really didn't have a whole lot. So that's mainly why I want to go back to Japan before Europe is. I want to actually be a proper tourist this time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not even mad at that. So look forward to that More Japan in three years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in three years, all 80 of y'all that follow us.
Speaker 1:And then we went to the what was it? The anime district.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Akihabara. Yeah, akihabara, and that's when we went to the little Dinky Hello Kitty store, our first donkey store. Which we thought was better than the second donkey store, even though it's not the mega this is not the mega donkey but it was better.
Speaker 1:You know what I think, mega donkey. The problem was it was raining when we were in shibuya, so everybody was in there getting out of the rain yeah, it was more annoying, but also shibuya, so it probably is crowded all the time, but maybe more so because of the rain, but it was still cool. I mean, like I said, you have to go to donkey, it's? Yeah, it's a thing. Yeah, it's a thing, yeah, you have to see it.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like the, the gacha poems and the crane games. They're freaking everywhere. You, you gotta go in and check it out.
Speaker 1:I freaking food in them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not just, I want a stuffed animal or a toy. No, no, you want a case of ramen. They got you, bro, a case. An actual piece of ramen was in these crane games. It was just. It was like two floors of just nothing, but it was wild crazy and it's not like oh, it's just this one no, they're all yeah.
Speaker 1:No, it's a thing. It wasn't like a niche thing, it was a normal thing everywhere.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. Hockey Hopper is basically Electric Town All the electronics. A lot of the young people hang out there. I have some co-workers that are into Kurami.
Speaker 1:I think, that's the cat with the black ears, yeah, the Hello Kitty with the black hat, hello Kitty, demon-looking thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was kind of cool though, because it was like, hey, I want to check this out, and I kind of dragged in, but then at the end it was like, oh, we're into this too.
Speaker 1:So it worked out obviously.
Speaker 2:They went to Hello Kitty Land on Monday. Now we're at Tuesday. Wife actually found herself a bag there. Yep, I'm not going to lie, it was super cute.
Speaker 1:She used it the rest of the trip too.
Speaker 2:She did, she did the whole time. That is so true. The last five days she had it with her the entire time. I found a couple of keychains that were specific to Ueno so I was like, alright, that's kind of cool. So I picked them up for souvenirs for the two people in my office that I knew that were into it, into specifically Karami. So I was like, all right, this is cool, so we did that, and then did we. Was that the end? Did we do anything else after that?
Speaker 1:I don't think so. I don't think we ate or anything. I think we just went back and did Lawsons.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to think I was like I think we finished up there and then we turned around and just worked our way back to the station, right, yeah, I think it was hello kitty and we because I think that was that when we had the buffet, donkey was before or after, before hello kitty was the last thing we did. Okay, okay, yeah, and that's the day that we had the sit-down buffet, right, I thought so, yeah, and then that's so it was eight.
Speaker 2:Well, it might have been shibuya. It might have been Wednesday.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't rainy. That was a nice day.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're right, it wasn't rainy, so you're right, so we had to have done the buffet for dinner and then probably did the donkey end. Exactly yeah, Because then it was dark. By the time we did Donkey and Hello Kitty, it was dark, so it had to be that.
Speaker 2:It was definitely dark then, so we had to have done, we must have finished the museum and then went and found dinner and that's when we found the buffet place. Lots of choices, this place, like 70 items on the menu. You just tell them what you want and how many orders of it. Oh man, and the place that's. Remember, the place I told you is comparable. Yeah, went on Tuesday after my niece's graduation.
Speaker 2:Worth it, thirty bucks, dude, 30 bucks a person. I know it was cheaper in Japan, but Japan was like 20 bucks a person, so but for America, 30 bucks a person, all the they had. If you guys make it out here and you're down for 30 bucks a person for this thing, just remember what you had in Japan, basically, but take away a few items but add like 40 rolls and sushi and stuff like that, because there wasn't as much sushi as the one in Japan. A lot of different, like almost like an izakaya. Yeah, this one, oh my god, this one sushi. It was just like it was for this way. We went on Tuesday. I wanted to go back on Saturday. That's how I was like. But you want to go with people right, right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:I want one piece of this. I didn't want to get too full. So, yeah, when you guys are here, holy crap, yeah, we're going. It was too good, too good, and we won't overeat or overorder a bunch of stuff this time. No, no.
Speaker 1:Because it'll be an American, so we'll know what's going on Exactly Everything.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, but the buffet was super cool, great, a lot of good food. Help yourself to drinks. Help yourself to dessert the dessert case.
Speaker 1:Once the girls figured that out, it was over yeah.
Speaker 2:I want two more of these. The desserts man. They had to restock that shit just because our table of five. Yeah, for real. Those little milk cakes they kept eating.
Speaker 1:They love those things.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah and anything. If it was green, a big one was going after it, just in case it was matcha, I'll take ten.
Speaker 1:Had to be an even number, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was. They didn't have my melon drink, so I had, so I was stuck with orange this time four stars. You on yelp the, the, the only you know what, though? This was a common thing their glasses are small.
Speaker 1:You had to refill like six times man it was iced tea glasses. We have the big pizza hut glasses from back in the day no, no, that's not what you get.
Speaker 2:What you get is like the kid size, like, oh, your child's between three and five years old here's your cup you know, without a lid, but but I, I think, but I think about six times got up to get drinks just because, yeah, the cups were so damn every time somebody got up, hey, refill this for me yeah, yeah, it was like oh, you're up, anyway, grab mine.
Speaker 2:It was like okay, but everybody, every time somebody got up, hey, refill this for me. Yeah, yeah, it was like oh, you're up, anyway, grab mine. It was like okay, but everybody, every time somebody got up somebody else needed to refill. But yeah, that was it was every restaurant too, huh yeah, nobody had big cups, even even the hotel, the breakfast remember. Uh, I think, when we did, when we did the, the night, the, the, the tea, rice stuff, um even then it was like, hey, I'm getting up, yeah, yep, I'm getting.
Speaker 2:Then it was like, hey, I'm getting up, yeah, I'm getting up. Yeah, those little. I was like not everything is sake, what the hell. Because it was like a sake it wasn't as small as a sake I felt like it. You could easily just down it in one go.
Speaker 1:It's humid there, dehydrate like a motherfucker, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And good luck finding a water fountain. Yeah, I don't think they know what water fountains are. Did the train stations have water fountains? I don't remember by the bathrooms we didn't really go to the bathroom a lot at the train station we went a few times, because you usually either buy, though, but I don't remember seeing too many water fountains there At all?
Speaker 1:No, there were so many machines.
Speaker 2:You know which is fine.
Speaker 1:You know, 140 yen.
Speaker 2:It is what it is, which is about a dollar 140 yen at the time when we were there.
Speaker 1:Now I think it's up to 145 again.
Speaker 2:It was up to 148 a couple days ago, but yeah, I think after dinner that's when we went to Akihabara. After that we walked our way towards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I think we went to Akihabara. After that we walked our way towards yeah, and then I think we went back. We didn't want to stay out too late because that was the next morning we were doing our luggage forwarding, right? Or was that Thursday morning that we did luggage forwarding?
Speaker 2:No, it was that morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was Wednesday morning. Wednesday was Shibuya. Yes, so Wednesday was Shibuya, but we also did.
Speaker 2:Our luggage we had already forwarded on Tuesday Because we're checking out Wednesday. That's what the plan was and we switched it up. Yeah, so we forwarded on Wednesday. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because we didn't get our stuff until Thursday.
Speaker 2:We got our stuff Thursday night. Yes, Okay. So Wednesday morning when we checked out is when we did the forward night. Yes, okay, so Wednesday morning when we checked out is when we did the four. Yeah, we were going to do it Tuesday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We were going to do it Tuesday. That way we had our stuff come Wednesday, right. But we're like, oh, not that big of a deal, we'll just do a back, like you said. We'll do a backpack with clothes for one day which we just threw in the locker at Shibuya on Wednesday anyway, yeah, we did. And then, Jack, I think that's when you informed the hotel, the Disney hotel, we were going to be late, Exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:To make sure we didn't lose our room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they said if you don't check in by 10, you could lose your room. So let them know. So we did so. Tuesday yeah, we didn't do anything with the with, with our clothes, we didn't need to do anything, yeah. So we wanted, but we did want to get back early, knowing we were going to leave exactly. Yeah, and we're going to do shibuya for the day and all that um.
Speaker 2:So we did the luggage forwarding first thing in the morning um we had our backpacks and then did we just go straight to shibuya? Yeah, we spent the day down there. Yeah, that was it right. We just hung out in shibuya and then we were just kind of we went. First thing we did, our exit out of the train station was the shibuya crossing. Yeah, the world famous crossing, which was small as f y'all, I get it thousand people cross at the same time. I was expecting this huge intersection.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no regular intersection, like a regular four-way intersection uh, I think it was five-way actually, but either way, either way it was I feel like the ones we do in san diego are bigger uh, yeah, honestly, yeah, they were uh, but, but no joke, a crap ton of people were yeah, yeah, that part is that was legit I can see how millions of people cross every day because there was a ton of people.
Speaker 2:It was just shocking to see how small the street area was. Um, yeah, then we went across the street and we found the lockers. Because we were looking for the starbucks because they're because I saw on some videos there's a starbucks you can get good views of the shibuya crossing so we went to go look for it. We went to the, we went the wrong way, uh, different, wrong starbucks and it was like oh, this works out because we found some lockers. So also like the stuff that we had, because, again, we had clothes and overnight stuff because we didn't have our luggage. So we just took all of our stuff and threw it in the locker.
Speaker 1:It was great. I didn't have to carry any of that stuff. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And we, we only needed a few hours, but you had like three days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like four days or something it said. We looked it up. We're like I'm sure some people do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like if you're taking a hop someplace on the weekend, whatever. Let's say, you're just shopping in Shibuya and you're like I'm going to go to Osaka, just leave your shit in the locker and go, Come back, I'll be waiting for you. And it was so cool, it's tied into your Suika card. You could just cash whatever. But if you did your Suika card, you got your stuff, you locked it up, put everything with your Suica. When you come back and push it, it knows which one is yours basically and opens it there.
Speaker 1:It was super cool.
Speaker 2:Very convenient, and then, at that point I think, we went to Ikea after that Yep got some meatballs. So yep ate there. I helped a couple out.
Speaker 1:The weird thing about Japan, I thought, was like different cities would have exclusives at certain stores, like the hello kitty thing over there. You know, the night before you could only get it at that hello kitty store, so we ended up. We went there because, uh, your girl wanted a purple, fucking ikea there's a purple and gray bag.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could only get in Shibuya Ikea.
Speaker 1:Shibuya Ikea exclusive fucking Ziploc bags. So everybody bought those too, yep.
Speaker 2:Yep, just grab some random stuff and then stay in there. For lunch I got to use my Japanese numbers because the couple next to me ordered the 12-piece meatballs and the server was only putting eight and they looked kind of like I don't know how to tell them that I want 12. Cause they just pointed at the menu, cause, like everybody else was doing, which means this, so they were, they were just pointing, and then I was like wait a minute, I know 12 is Juni. So I looked over and like didn't you order 12? It's like, yeah, I order 12. It's like, yeah, I don't know how to tell them that, though I'm like hang on. I was like swing my sand. And they looked over at me and I pointed at them and said and I said, uh, juni.
Speaker 1:And they're like, oh, okay, then they grabbed four more meatballs to put them on the lady was like, oh, thank you, I didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't know how to do that, so I was like, yay, my japanese came in handy. And then we got we got our food dessert. We got, I got meatball, I got the eight count meatballs and a and like a strawberry cheesecake which is, whatever the hell, I got.
Speaker 1:Um, basically the same that we get in America Ikea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just nice to say you did it in Japan.
Speaker 1:You know, it was like we got out of the rain for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it wasn't crazy rain people.
Speaker 1:Like it wasn't big. It was like mist.
Speaker 2:It was just a steady mist the entire time, nothing that's going to get you wet, but it wasn't like you're soaked. Yeah, exactly Because we were out in it and we were not soaked. Did you have an umbrella? I thought?
Speaker 1:one of you had an umbrella. The girls did. The girls had an umbrella, but then they washed out on it. I was like eh, it wasn't bad enough. No, it wasn't. I mean it just wasn't worth it. I think that's when we split up, we went down bought some stuff.
Speaker 2:We found some more stuff downstairs, Leaving the store. There's a bunch of random stuff here and there Then. Yeah, then we left there.
Speaker 1:We split up. We went to the cat cafe. Is that when that happened? I think so it was right after Ikea. Or we went to Donkey right after? No, it was Ikea Donkey.
Speaker 2:Then we split up. We split up at Donkey because you guys were done. I was only on floor five Right.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so we went to the Cat Cafe, we killed time there, and then we met up at the Nintendo store. We found you at the Nintendo store.
Speaker 2:Right, right, but when you? Because I finished up Donkey while you guys were at the Cat Cafe. Oh, I know, I went to a Daiso, but it was weak. It was not a good Daiso, but it was weak, it was like it was not a good Daiso. So I was like, oh, whatever. So then I went to the mall to go to the Nintendo store and Pokemon store and all that. You guys were only like five minutes behind me. At that point. It worked out perfectly. I was there, found the bathroom, I walked through, I think, each of the two stores like real quick, like I wasn't browsing, just walk in and walk out.
Speaker 2:Then when I walked out of the second one, you guys had arrived. So, yeah, not even five minutes there really. Yeah, we hung out there. I mean, we checked out the Nintendo store and the Pokemon store, which one of them was hot as hell, I can't remember which one.
Speaker 1:That was the Pokemon store. Dude, it was the Pokemon store. Oh my God, it was suffocating. I'm like, no, I'm out.
Speaker 2:I don't love Pokemon that much. The Mew up front in the statue was badass, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2:That thing was.
Speaker 1:I wasn't waiting in line for nothing in there.
Speaker 2:It was just we're in. We saw it. Both lines at the Pokemon store and Nintendo store were probably 40 people deep. It was just. That's one of those things where, if you want something from there, go first thing in the morning. For us we're right around lunchtime, so it's been open for a while. But, yeah, you want something from there, go first thing in the morning, grab what you want, get in line, get out, because it was just like, as long as you don't mind waiting an hour in line because it was probably going to be an hour, just to check out, yep, forget that. Yeah, I don't. Okay. Then we finished there somewhere, either before that or after that. We were just walking around and found a disney store yeah, it was after that.
Speaker 1:We were walking. It was yeah, we were walking back. It was on our way to donkey, but I don't remember I don't remember carrying, carrying a bunch of Disney stuff until the end, okay, so I think it was after the mall, we were just walking back towards our locker and then, yeah, we found the Disney store and then the girls went wild. Oh, yeah, it was like us at Celebration.
Speaker 2:Everything, marie, yeah, it was a celebration for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a celebration for them, all three of them. It was their celebration at the Disney store Shit. And then we went back there Saturday, before we left too, and they still bought more stuff.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna lie, though Even though she wasn't there for my girl, she had a celebration for her too. Cause I ended up spending Shit ton, I think. I bought like two things For myself and everything else was ours.
Speaker 1:That was a cool story. Three stories I ended up spending a shit ton, I think I bought two things for myself, and everything else was ours. That was a cool story. Three stories it was, though they didn't have Star Wars, so that was a little disappointing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was kind of weird, though. They didn't have a lot of Star Wars anywhere there other than a celebration. I'm sure there were Star Wars stores. I saw people on Facebook talking about it, but you'd have to go find it. Like it's not just there.
Speaker 1:It's Disney. Hello, why wouldn't it be at a Disney store? Yeah, nope, not really. Maybe they don't. Uh, uh, like consider it, like, take that into consideration.
Speaker 2:Yeah it that, yeah, it is owned by Disney. I don't know, maybe it's the whole kind of like the way Disneyland is franchised out there not actual Disney proper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, does Disney run the Disney stores out there, or do they?
Speaker 2:license that out too. Or maybe Japanese people really just aren't into Star Wars the way everybody else is Could be, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Why'd they get a celebration Dang?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, um, but yeah, it's really good what else we did in shibuya. But I think that was it, dude, we were just most wandering yeah oh yeah, you're right, because then we, then we, uh we're wrapping it up because we're getting hungry and we still have to check in at our, at our disney hotel. So we left a little bit early. Well, I don't know what early is, we just left around dinner time.
Speaker 2:Uh obviously went back to our locker, grabbed all our stuff blah, blah, blah yeah, went back to the station um took the train I think that's when we had to take the train and then take the bus.
Speaker 1:Take a bus, yep, yeah and it's like it's right to the disney Yep Right across the street.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Yep Went in. We all checked in, went to the room for what? All of 10 minutes?
Speaker 1:because we were hungry Yep and we found sushi right down the street. We walked about 10, 15 minutes. We had to take our shoes off to eat it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, take your shoes off. Take your shoes off, it has. It has a little. The table had a little cubby hole underneath so you weren't sitting on your legs, or or um, indian style, which you apparently can't say anymore native american style no, it's like chris cross sauce.
Speaker 2:Yep, oh my god. When I first heard that a couple years ago, I was just like what bullshit is this? I mean, I rolled my eyes so hard, man. But so they had the little cubby hole so you could sit down, but your feet go down into the little hole. So I was like, okay, this is cool. I think the three of y'all Got the same thing the platter, I think.
Speaker 1:So I think the three of us did get the same one and I got the other platter. Yeah.
Speaker 2:The food was great, though the sake was great. I could have went another bottle on him and fine yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, he came out and talked us out of ordering when he's like no, that's a lot. We were like we ordered three bottles.
Speaker 2:To start, he's like I don't know that you meant to do this. So he brought us one. Then we bought a second one and, and because everybody was done, we didn't buy a third one. Right, we were just there hanging out, we would have bought a third.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, for sure yeah, but after that we found a standalone lawson's that was fun because, keep in mind, at our first hotel it was like a seven to eight story hotel. The first floor, kind of out right, right outside is, was the lawson connected to the building, and then our lobby for the hotel was on the fifth floor and then the rooms were on like floor six and seven or something like that. Yeah Well, I guess on five to around the other side of the back of the elevator.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, yeah, so this was our first time and we knew we were going to go. We knew we were going to go to a convenience store, so we're just checking to see what was around on our way back. Our walk back, I looked it up, or one of us looked it up, and it was like oh, there's a, there's a lost in mart over here whatever it's called.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like one block out of our way. So like, okay, let's go check it out. And yeah, standalone lost. It was fantastic. Um, it was kind of cool to finally see a standalone one you know with.
Speaker 1:Uh, we've seen the alone but our experience just been like inside, like the train station, or under our hotel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. That's all it's been, and this one is all by itself the parking lot and everything. So we went in there and as always bought a bunch of stuff loaded up.
Speaker 1:What do you want to eat for breakfast tomorrow?
Speaker 2:Yep, Grab what you want now, whatever you're going to put in your bag for Disney, all that stuff, because at that point we knew we were going to actual Disneyland on Thursday, Disney Sea on Friday, but yeah, and we don't think we went back there so we loaded up everything we needed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just the one time. Yeah, because we were obviously we opened and closed at Disney and went straight to bed.
Speaker 2:But the Lawson was fantastic and even the hotel had a little mini mart. That was like a Lawson inside the Disney hotel yeah. And I think I went there whatever day I think Disney Sea Day when I left and you guys went back to Disneyland to get stuff for Pandora.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we split up that night.
Speaker 2:Okay, that night when we split up on Friday, I actually went to that Disney Hotel, lawson or convenience store and bought a few things there myself which I left in a damn fridge at the hotel. It was just drinks. I left, I think, the Kiwi beer or cider, whatever it is, and a bottle of water. It was like eh, whatever, whatever, but but yeah. So, but I did get karage when I was there.
Speaker 2:So surprise, oh, and the tuna mayonnaise, onigiri I got the tuna, tuna, mayonnaise, onigiri every time we went to a convenience store and it was available if it wasn't sold out, I grabbed one. Every time I still missed the lemon. The lemon karage was, uh, so good. So lemony the pepper one, so good. The ramen one wasn't that good, I mean.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's like it tastes like the plain one, yeah so like I wanted it to taste like ramen and it tastes like the regular. So the spicy one wasn't that spicy, not the one I got anyway, um, but yeah so. So Wednesday Shibuya came back dinner Boston and that was it, and then we planned for the morning, because we get in staying at the hotel, we get in 15 minutes early, so we wanted to make sure we were there like a half hour at 45 minutes early and the line was already long when we got there.
Speaker 1:And we ate breakfast. Remember we had the buffet for oh we did. We did the Disney Hotel buffet. Not too bad Hot dog sausages.
Speaker 2:Yup, things aren't what they really are. Their French toast was Texas toast. It was buttered bread, basically their runny-ass eggs that everybody was putting ketchup on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 2:I guess that's a thing, because it was just like Ertel might go up to get food and somebody had those runny eggs on their plate. They were adding ketchup to them.
Speaker 2:So it's got to be a thing, it's got to be yeah and I wasn't having it because my gallbladder and egg yolk or runny egg yolk or runny egg yolk doesn't always work well. So I try it with the soft-boiled eggs and ramen. But I wasn't first thing in the morning. I wasn't about to risk it. Going to Disney it would have been fine. I would have found a bathroom with a clear my system. I don't find this all day problem. It just gets in my system, gets out my system, but I didn't want to bother with it so I avoided the eggs both days that we went.
Speaker 2:It was a good buffet, though they had your melon drink, so they did have my melon drink and I did drink it several cups Again. A matter of fact, we got smart and started just filling up two cups at a time. It was like it took a week, but we learned. Yeah, yeah, but even then I still went up there a couple of times and filled them both up twice. But I did like the buffet.
Speaker 1:it was not a good one, yeah sure, I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that the mickey was imprinted on the yes instead of just being shaped as yeah, on the pancakes instead of so that was kind of cool. Um, yeah, cheap price wasn't that bad at all. Uh, decent food. Uh, the meatloaf or the salisbury steak was my favorite, you know a lot. It was breakfast yeah, but that salisbury steak and rice, I was all over that.
Speaker 1:And then once we figured out the sauce was for the meat because we didn't know at first we got the meat first, like it's like meatloaf and I'm like, oh, I bet that sauce next to it so the second ship up yeah that's a great steak and it was.
Speaker 2:It was like it was like their sausage was Salzburg steak. It was absolutely. It was like and you had to learn that right, you're just like I don't know, we'll see what it is and it's like oh, okay, american versions. It's this Again like the Texas toast, like, oh, french toast. Cool, no, it was not French toast. There was no egg in that bread.
Speaker 1:No cinnamon, no, nothing. It was buttered toast Nutmeg whatever y'all like Vanilla.
Speaker 2:It was not there.
Speaker 1:I don't know which Frenchman they talked to.
Speaker 2:It was a Frenchman that brought it to America. Somebody lied to these people. It's like you need to go there. I'm going to take stickers next time with me. For the Americans it's like okay, this is what this really is.
Speaker 1:You have to put a little American flag next to it with the word so they know.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:If you're.
Speaker 2:American. That's what this is, but overall decent spread. It wasn't like I left hungry.
Speaker 1:No, we went both days. Or did we go all three days?
Speaker 2:No, no, we went first day, third day.
Speaker 1:That's right, yeah, second day.
Speaker 2:We did not. We did Thursday, Saturday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what we did on Friday.
Speaker 1:What did we do? I don't even know. Do we, if anything, try to sleep a little bit, because I don't think we? No, we rope dropped um, see no.
Speaker 2:No, I got there before you guys. You did why Remember? Why Remember? Because I thought I was late.
Speaker 1:Yes, you thought you were late, so you ran out and you got on the bus before us.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I thought y'all were already gone, so I got on the bus and left. I'm like, hey, I'm on the bus, blah, blah, blah. You're like, bro, we're still in the room.
Speaker 1:But that's going to have to be next week's story. We are running out of time already.
Speaker 2:We're already there, yeah, so I guess we'll finish up, plus Duke might want to hear it too, exactly Because he didn't go with us. So we'll finish up Disney and our flight back next week and then, once we get there, that'll be like the first half hour. It won't take very long. We can jump into what we thought of, andor. Yep can jump into what we thought of and or, yeah, and or thunderbolts, thunder. Oh, that's right. We've all seen that one by now. You guys, I haven't seen, I haven't seen sinners yet, just because timing hasn't worked out well. I was like, oh, I'm going here, like no, niece's graduation, like I guess I'm not doing that. And then, like the week before that, it was like I think, uh, go, girl had her daughter's recital. I, I think.
Speaker 2:It was the season. Yep, it was the last one of the season, so it was like oh, so there's two weeks in a row that we didn't make it out. In theory, this week we'll be able to make it out. I don't have any meetings until. I only have one meeting this week, and it's Wednesday, I don't think. I think her schedule is open. So, yeah, I think Tuesday we'll see Everybody's talked about Sinners, so that's the one we're going to watch.
Speaker 1:I have Tuesday off, so I think we're going to go watch Final Destination. Oh yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 2:That's out too. But yeah, that'll work out perfectly. So we can talk about Sinners and Thunderbolts and Andor, yeah, boy.
Speaker 1:Getting back to our regular schedule program and then football's going to start ramping up soon.
Speaker 2:Yep, it's going to be. It might be to the point where I'll have to start actually going on a not-Tuesday Right To keep up with what's going on.
Speaker 1:Real though.
Speaker 2:And then, although I think Fantastic Four is out this year at SDCC yeah, I think so I might do like last year's. If you guys want to do the movie thing again at that mall, oh yeah, well, pre-order some tickets. Yeah, pre-order some tickets and go watch it out there. That wouldn't be a bad idea actually. So yeah, I'm doing it for sure. So if you four want to jump in, let me know.
Speaker 1:I'll get all the tickets.
Speaker 2:You know what's going to happen is the big one's going to win the lottery Bruh For real, for real. You know what. We'll have to do it. We should do it. Preview night ends at 9. No, that might be too late.
Speaker 1:Only three of us can go to preview night though.
Speaker 2:Well yeah, we're only shopping anyway. So whoever's shopping, it's funny.
Speaker 1:Oh, we can talk about it offline. But yeah, we'll wrap it up Once we figure out what we're doing for Comic-Con people, we'll fill you in on our plan, but we don't know what we're doing yet.
Speaker 2:That's a long time from now. You need to get here already. I'm already ready to go. I ain't gonna lie man with with with denver comic-con. June at least is quiet, uh, for cons anyway, there's nothing going on. You guys have your trip, obviously, out here. That's about it. I got nothing really until fourth july weekend for denver comic-con, um, and then three weeks later San Diego, and then three weeks after that is Colorado Springs, uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then finally a break.
Speaker 2:And then it's football season. So much going on, so much going on. I don't have enough PTO for all this. I'm going to be sick a lot in the fall.
Speaker 1:I can feel a cough my allergies are acting up.
Speaker 2:I can feel a cough coming up.
Speaker 1:My allergies are acting up. I got winter allergies.
Speaker 2:Five months early, but I feel it, oh man.
Speaker 1:All right, we will wrap it up.
Speaker 2:All right, y'all, all three of us will be back next week. Thank you for giving us a chance to relive Japan, even though that was a month ago. It was like crazy. It was like crazy we were talking before we started. It was like, oh my gosh, my Osaka trip that Sunday night Was four weeks ago tonight. Damn time has flown.
Speaker 1:Still seems like yesterday, though.
Speaker 2:Dude for real. I still haven't left there yet. I still want to go back. You know what I mean. I'm not back yet.
Speaker 1:I still miss all the vending machines.
Speaker 2:The cheap prices Lawson.
Speaker 1:Trust me you're going to thank us when you go to Japan and you go to Lawson's, You're like there.
Speaker 2:You're all going to be like oh my god, the hot food here, the cold food here, their Kewpie mayonnaise, which is available here at H-Mark, along with Pokey Sweat, which I found, by the case, by the case. Oh shit All right Catch y'all next week. Bye. Same bad time, same bad channel.
