Day 12 - Alex still sick

Alex was still sick today and decided to stay in bed. Luckily we had made plans the night before to meet Tugbe so she could show us around Ginza. Ginza is pretty far downtown and full of really really expensive shops. But there are still some very impressive things to see around there. We met up with Tugbe and her friend Lydia at Ikebukro station around 1:30pm and hopped another train towards Ginza. After some crazy train station mishaps on which I will not elaborate... We were in Ginza. It was really quite awesome having those two as guides because Tugbe knew all of the crazy modern day cultural experiences to be had in Ginza and Lydia being a Japanese culture major was able to tell us all the history here. It was really cool that they could tell us both sides of all the places we visited. Some of those places were the traditional Kabuki theater, a Buddhist fisher mens temple, Takarazuka theater, a huge fish market, the Sony building and the Nissan building. All in all it was a pretty awesome night filled with exploration and good times.