I forgot about these pictures that a took a few weeks ago right after Glenn got home. We decided to join a bunch of people from our squadron and go out in Tokyo for the night. What a blast we had!
Going out in Tokyo is fun (expensive!) but the problem comes with getting home. Trains in Japan stop running around midnight or shortly after, but of course like any big city, the bars get crowded and packed starting around midnight. You have three options usually- 1) Make it a short night and catch the last trains home or 2) stay out until 5 am when the trains start running again or 3) pay for a hotel in Tokyo. The hotel we stay at is extremely difficult to get a room at on Friday and Saturday nights so Glenn and I were prepared for option #2 or possibly crashing on our friends' hotel room floors. Luckily, when we checked with the front desk when we got the hotel to meet people, they had had a last minute cancellation- wahoo!
We had an awesome dinner at the hotel restaurant and fun times at the hotel bar and then headed to Roppongi around midnight. Roppongi is an area of Tokyo known for it's night life. We went to a English-speaker-frequented bar called Geronimo's. Geronimo's is a shot bar which equals trouble. Also, when I said going out in Tokyo was expensive, I meant it. That little green shot in my hand? 1000 yen. With the awesome exchange currently, that's a little less than $11.
Geronimo's also has the shot challenge. 15 shots of their choosing in some set time limit (an hour maybe?) and you get a tshirt and your name on a plaque on the wall! Steve, Logan and ? completed it that night.
Glenn found a plaque that said "Glenn" but gratefully it wasn't his. After Geronimo's we found an awesome Raman shop thanks to Mai (a friend's Japanese girlfriend) for some much needed alcohol absorbtion. I proceeded to fall asleep at the restaurant so Glenn and I took at cab home. Why was I falling asleep? Because it was 4:45 in the morning! We could have made that first train after all!
Going out in Tokyo is fun (expensive!) but the problem comes with getting home. Trains in Japan stop running around midnight or shortly after, but of course like any big city, the bars get crowded and packed starting around midnight. You have three options usually- 1) Make it a short night and catch the last trains home or 2) stay out until 5 am when the trains start running again or 3) pay for a hotel in Tokyo. The hotel we stay at is extremely difficult to get a room at on Friday and Saturday nights so Glenn and I were prepared for option #2 or possibly crashing on our friends' hotel room floors. Luckily, when we checked with the front desk when we got the hotel to meet people, they had had a last minute cancellation- wahoo!
We had an awesome dinner at the hotel restaurant and fun times at the hotel bar and then headed to Roppongi around midnight. Roppongi is an area of Tokyo known for it's night life. We went to a English-speaker-frequented bar called Geronimo's. Geronimo's is a shot bar which equals trouble. Also, when I said going out in Tokyo was expensive, I meant it. That little green shot in my hand? 1000 yen. With the awesome exchange currently, that's a little less than $11.
Geronimo's also has the shot challenge. 15 shots of their choosing in some set time limit (an hour maybe?) and you get a tshirt and your name on a plaque on the wall! Steve, Logan and ? completed it that night.
Glenn found a plaque that said "Glenn" but gratefully it wasn't his. After Geronimo's we found an awesome Raman shop thanks to Mai (a friend's Japanese girlfriend) for some much needed alcohol absorbtion. I proceeded to fall asleep at the restaurant so Glenn and I took at cab home. Why was I falling asleep? Because it was 4:45 in the morning! We could have made that first train after all!
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