Tokyo Day 2: Follow your instincts (pg 2)
Written by silver on April 20th, 2008
So, we hopped on the subway and went to Ginza, exiting right outside the Nissan showroom. Even though we’ve seen the car before at the auto show a few months ago, and they only had 1 in the showroom vs the 3 Jae thought they would have, we spent a good 30 minutes there. Just looking, gazing, admiring…and for the first time, touching, and even sitting in it. At least that was what Jae did, my cousin and I kinda just stood around, amused.
Afterwards we went outside and decided to check out the Apple store. As we were making our way there our walkie suddenly came to life with a sputter. Ever since we got to Ginza I’ve been pressing the call button every few minutes hoping that our group would hear us. By that time I was ready to give up, figuring that they must have already left the area.
“Hey! Where are you guys!” I called back.
“We’re near the Sony building”
“I don’t know where the Sony building is, but we’re going to the Apple store, should we just meet you at the restaurant?”
“NO!! We don’t know how to get to the restaurant!”
“What? But I gave directions last night”
“Ya, the directions are back in the hotel room”
Doh…. It’s a good thing I had an urge to come find them in Ginza.
Well, if we could hear them, then they must be close. 2 blocks later we found them, Binh and Jason looking a bit relieved. As we walked to the Pachinko joint to find the girls they explained how hard they have been working for the past half hour trying to find out where the Ninja restaurant was. They had approached a few strangers, gesturing and doing Ninja poses hoping to be understood, but to no avail. No one even knew a Ninja restaurant existed. Apparently, a Ninja themed restaurant wasn’t a typical place to go in Tokyo.
As we entered the Pachinko joint, the girls were nowhere to be found. I then spied the two of them going out the door with one of the attendants. They had no idea why they were following the attendant, but since it’s Japan, it must be safe…. We went around the corner, into another building and up a set of stairs. There we found a window with a cashier who then took the stub of paper the attendant had and then gave Di 5000 yen. Even though she didn’t know how to play, apparently, she still won some money.