Otaku Heaven

After spending the morning at Yodobashi Camera in Kawasaki, we took the train to Akihabara.

If you have never been you must go (if you are an Otaku). It is a wonderland of electronics, toys, weird "adult" stores, maid cafes, arcades and general weirdness. We are going back on Saturday with a group of people and my "consulting" team which includes the one and only Yuichi Noguchi. We ended up in the top floor of a building that got dorkier and dorkier floor by floor until you eventually ascended into Otaku Heaven.

Only a serious Otaku Pimp can sport Akbar Bling

We then went to Tokyo station and ended up walking a very long time around the Emperor's Palace.

I was checking out the guards stationed at the different posts and saying that I want to get a running start and hop two or three fences until they are in full pursuit of me, and then when they get close, just run away as fast as I could. (We saw something similar happen when a drunk topless guy made it on to the field at a Fresno State Bulldog's game last year and danced until security got within a yard of him and then jammed. He soon had about 20 or 30 guards chasing him and went several yards until he was tackled and arrested. It was by far the best action on the field that night.) The only purpose of this would be to cause a stir. I then said that I would probably get caught because I would not be able to stop laughing, and I would get deported like my name was Russell Brand (he got deported from Japan the day I arrived for some mysterious reason). It would be like the time Eyad and I tried to short a Chinese restaurant one dollar (even though we had plenty of money). We ran and when we looked back the waiter was in hot pursuit of us. We got caught because we could not stop laughing. We gave him a dollar and he went away. I feel no regret about it either and if I had the chance to go back and do the right thing.............I wouldn't. Good times.

We eventually ended up in Hibiya park, where we some how came across the liberty bell.

It had all the writing about Philly on it and everything. I found this to be enormously confusing only to become more confused when we stumbled across Oktoberfest in the middle of May.........in Tokyo!!!

I had no choice but to sample the "black chorizo"

Had ton katsu with Ma and Pa Sudo tonight and then ended up at Hide and Yuka's watching a program where a Japanese comedian investigates paranormal activity and secret societies in the USA. Before you knew it I had an American dollar out pointing to the symbols of the illuminati hidden in the patterns. In the words of our fallen hero John Denver.........thank God I'm a country boy.