Tokyo Day 23
Yebisu Garden Place is very nice, there’s a lot of public spaces for hanging out and eating, and a large covered area for live music.
YEAY! Life sized beer cans! Complete with fake foam!
Welcome… to the cavern of the BEER GODS.
They had paintings illustrating that women have been getting men drunk on beer and taking advantage of them for at least 100 years in Japan.
The essential ingredients of beer, being held in some sort of bizarre kryptonite-based prison.
Back when Egyptians discovered beer, they would get shitfaced and have to carry each other home. Apparently. I can’t read kanji.
Here’s my favorite part! The tasting room!
Of course, since it’s Japan, that means that tastings are done by getting a ticket out of a machine. We decided to go for the sampler.
Who knew that Sapporo made red ale and a wheet beer?
Yes, that’s beer-based jello.
Lots of it.
Next, we headed off to Harajuku to check out the shopping areas, and because we wanted to see the legendary 4-story tall 100-yen Daiso.
Seriously, what is this product? A fake swan head that you can attach to your daughter’s elegant ballerina outfit.. while a perverted child molester behind her pretends that the swan head is his phallus. I’m so confused. At least it’s only 100 yen.
What a tasty looking almond and dried fish snack mix!
Want to go green? Stop using power, and shred those papers by HAND, Nancy!
Sadly, trucker hats have made their way from the douchebags of the US to the douchebags of Japan. Everywhere you look, there’s huge trucker hats with complete nonsense on them in english. Like this one, stating “You are the one. All I need is you. It goes to meet. SO GREAT.”
Please do not fornicate on the ashtray.
Or on the package of band-aids?
Pink Latte is a store in Harajuku that is ALL PINK. With the body of a pink airplane inside the store. Full of pink goods.
Later that night, I headed to Shibuya Kaikan, which is a legendary 50-yen arcade. And MAN was it awesome. It ended up being six stories of gaming goodness, every floor having a different game theme.
The outside of Shibuya Kaikan.
Lots and lots of Gundam fighting games.
I believe these were for playing majjong, but I mostly wanted to show how comfortable they looked. Big fat ass leather chairs, and an ashtray. What more do you need?
The rhythm section was nearly empty, much to my delight. I ran around and tried nearly every one of these games, some of them were brand new and not in the US yet.
Like this one, where you need to touch the colored squares as soon as they light up, to music. It’s pretty neat.
Pop’n. This shows the audience perfectly, solitary otaku, and schoolgirls.
Halflife 2, the arcade game? Whaaa?
Here’s the retro room. Look at those awesome old games! Mario in a cabinet!!
See you guys later, I gotta go play some Bubble Bobble, baby.
