The Nunc Stans: Day 7, Part 2

And so i now move onto the evening. Me and some other guys and some girls went to shibuya, about 7pm i think, Shibuya no matter how many times you go there, is absolutely stunning, think Piccadilly circus but times 10000. So we went to a restaurant there and had (quite) some to drink, was a lovely restaurant, all traditionally styled and stuff, and it even had its own crazy 70 year old waitress woman hah. After that we went to karaoke, well not directly as after 11pm the price was halved so we waited around for a while, went to a Family Mart etc. Karaoke itself was great fun. But in the lobby of the karaoke building (which was 5 stories tall, we had room 401) there was a bamboo tree, now for a little cultural lesson, 7th of July (7/7) in Japan is whats called 七夕festival (meaning night of the 7th), i ont explain the story behind it, but what happens is you write you wish on a special strip of paper and hang it onto the tree, with each one round the country being covered in colourful paper with peoples wishes on, nice really :). Anyway, In your room room with seats and a table (obviously) all sort of centred around a TV connected to the... guess what... kraoke machine. The choice of songs was huuuuge. There was at least 2000 pages in that book, most songs that i could think of were in there. Had an absolute blast, the girls we were with were actually really good singers, so was the other guy, but the gaijins of us, were somewhat ... terrible, but we really were all merry and in high spirits, was just a really great nice night. We came out at 5am, and to our surprise Shibuya was light again, (on account of it being summer is suppose, but it was still cloudy); and there were people EVERYWHERE, it was just as busy at 5am as it was at 8pm! Madness, Tokyo truly is the city that never sleeps, no wonder; theres unending things to do.