Wow, this was totally a spur of the moment trip. I took the shinkansen with a friend going to Tokyo for job interviews; he invited me only a week or so beforehand when I happened to mention I wanted to go to Tokyo sometime before I went home. We stayed in different hotels because there was no more room in the one he had booked, haha.
That was fine though. I actually snagged a sort of semi-capsule hotel for women only that was actually quite nice. I experienced sleeping in a small space without a lot of the downsides that come with ordinary capsule hotels. Also, while my friend did his interviews on Saturday, I got to wander around Tokyo alone, which was amazing. I walked through Roppongi, briefly met up with friends in Harajuku, visited a pokemon center, and happened upon the Nippon Budokan (which is this huge building for martial arts tournaments). There was actually a tournament going on when I wandered up, for Judo. Though I know next to nothing about Judo, I got in with a student rate and enjoyed the sweet sweet air conditioning for about half a glorious hour before wandering back out into the sweltering humid heat that is Tokyo in summer. My friend and I went in both the Tokyo Tower and the Skytree and I got to see the Kaminarimon up close. Really amazing experience; I'm happy I jumped at the opportunity.
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