Day 42 - Nakajima-no-ochaya, Sunshine City & Ikebukuro

We got talking to a girl called Emily who is staying in a dorm with us. She's from New Jersey and she's awesome!

We decided to spend the day out with her as she was going to the same places we were.

We started by going to the gardens in Nakajima-no-ochaya.

It was really nice, and there were cats all over the place!

Afterwards, we jumped on the subway to Ikebukuro, which has a massive shopping centre. It's virtually a city inside a building!

Named 'sunshine city', this building holds not only shops, but an actual entertainment sort of resort called Namja Town.

Namja Town was created and built by Namco, yaaay! There were cats everywhere, too! Except not real ones this time.

It was really cool! They had all sorts in there, from shops selling cat things to a scary cat maze type thing!
They even had an ICE CREAM CITY! That's right, shop after shop of ice cream!

All in this 'amusement park' within a building, I couldn't really get my head around it. Food courts, an arcade, human board games, everything!

Afterwards we got a bite to eat, and I had the most delicious curry soba!

On our way out of Sunshine City, we saw that there was a show on within the shopping mall. I only caught a little bit of what they were talking about as, obviously it was all in Japanese, but it seemed to be a public talent show of some sort that anyone can participate in! Cheerleading, body painting, sword fighting (with umbrellas). It was ace!

Of course, no day is complete without a quick stop at the many arcades to give Tekken 6 a play.

And then it was off to the subway home.

Tokyo is still awesome, tomorrow we're going to the temples and on Sunday we're gonna have an amazing time in Harajuku!