« Sodaske... | Main | Chinese imports »
July 21, 2004
Chou Umai!
After leaving Dan and Nick to their destination on Saturday night, Felicia and I headed back to Tameikesano, to this orange-cube shaped club called Forum. We had a coupon for discount tickets for women and foreigners, but weren't really sure if we had the cash. Felicia remember admission being Y2000 for [foreign] men and Y1000 for women. We tried every ATM along the way but Japan is notoriously xenophobic towards to foreign cards so we ended up counting up our pocket change in front of a supermarket. Thanks to a few Y500 coins, we ended up with Y3700, and were pleasantly surprised to find out admission was only Y1000 for either of us and included two drinks:
We spent another Y1500 on drinks before heading off to Roppongi, the only area of Tokyo that isn't more than 90% Japanese. At Roppongi, we planned to go to Club Vanilla but my sandals are strictly prohibited. I remember talking to some other would-be clubbers who were caught-off guard. They were waiting for their friends to bring them sneakers. Felicia and I instead went to Motown, an old American-style bar in one of Tokyo's whitest side streets. We stayed at Motown until 5:30AM. It was one of the funnest, sketchiest and most productive nights of this trip. We made two new Japanese friends, who we ended up staying with the next night:
Naoki and his friend.
Persistent sketchy dude.
Another persistent sketchy dude, this one successful.
Posted by rxu at July 21, 2004 02:21 AM