Day 13 – Hi Ho to nichome we go~

Alex was feeling better and had decided to take us around. We decided to head to Tokyo tower. We had lots of cool chances for pictures on the way there but when we made it to go inside we were met by a HUGE crowd trying to see it before the new year. We decided not to wait and instead head to Roppongi... the ritzy part of the city where all the rich gaijin live... It was funny to think that to us this was more of a sight seeing tour though their neighborhoods then I'm sure they are familiar. We did catch a few gaijin giving us dirty looks as we wondered though... we were easily discernible because we were the only ones not sporting any form of famous designer ware. We walked though some of the shops and it felt similar to being in America... in fact I remember the gut wrenching feeling I got when we walked into a book store filled with “artzy” gaijin sitting there pondering in which way they could best create their next masterpiece. It was a very infuriating to see that this part of town had succumbed to the same type of segregative bullshit that the US is so famous for. We left that place pretty quickly and didn't bother looking back. So we headed to Shinjuku and wandered around there for a bit and had some dinner. Alex showed us around some of the spots of Nichome he knew and we headed back home for the night.