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nostromo in hello-kitty land, day 7

half of my stay here is done, and still so much to see. i hope
i see at least the most important things i planned for this trip.

for today, day 07, there's not much written info here on the
bLog, but loads of pictures, since i wanted to have a relaxing
day in shops (they all have air-condition). thus i went to
"ikebukuro", as my guide says there are loads of shops and
malls. after getting of the JR train at "ikebukuro" station i
was walking around in malls for about twenty minutes when i
entered another "tokyu hands" store. on the nineth floor i found
another "cats alive" store and a huge cat store called
"nekobukuro"[004-007], having all kind of cat-related stuff.
they even had a living cat in the shop[007].

in the next street i saw this "cat cafe"[008] sign. a caffee is
always a good idea, so i thought ok, let's find out what a "cat
cafe"[009-045] is. it turned out to be the same as comic/manga
cafes in tokyo (though i still have to visit one). you pay for
each hour you stay at the bar/cafe and then can drink as much as
you want and enjoy the cats/comics/etc.  it's similar to the
"cats alive" store where one would pay for playing with cats.
1000YEN for the first hour (that's about 6EUR). at first i
thought one hour is way too long and i will be leaving after
30mins again, but this is somehow addictive.  drinking coffee,
surrounded by cute cats and girls in schooluniforms having fun
with the kitten. really cute - all of them. though every
additional hour would have been cheaper (300YEN, that's about
1.75EUR) i left the cafe. a few streets away i found a huge
manga store[052] (ten floors full of manga stuff) together with
several other shops[053-054] in a row.

next stop was "sunshine city" with the "sunshine international
aquarium"[066-201], which is located on the tenth floor in the
"world import mart" building and also includes a little zoo with
all kind of small animals. "sunshine city" itself is made up of
several skyscrapers. another one of them is the "sunshine60"
building, which houses the "sunshine observatory"[203-216],
including a "naruto" exhibition (there's a new film that will be
in cinemas on second of august, therefore one can see "naruto"
stuff everywhere).

on my way home[217-220] it seems i hit rush-hour at the train
station[221]. so i bought something to drink, waited until the
rush was over, and drove home.

today's dinner: a collection of various fried things in a
box[222]. from left to right, top to bottom: fried fish (tasted
exactly like "kaept'n iglos fischstaebchen", rice, then
something undefineable, but tastet like strudel. the risolle in
front tasted like a spicy vegetable burger, and finally a
meatball in the lower right corner. this all was served warm (at
the hotel there's a public microwave oven). it tasted very very
good. on the left a dessert i tried out. i think it was soya
pudding with vanille flavour and whipped cream and haselnut
cream topping. also very yummi!

so all in all really an relaxing day with loads of cats.

random facts about tokyo: today i saw drunk japanese people for
the first time here in tokyo. as it's friday i guess many start
to preapre for weekend. there's a towing service for bikes that
are parked where they shouldn't be. japanese love cute
characters - they are everywhere and almost used by every
company, no matter what they sell or produce (this includes
parcel-, telephon-, tv-, and transportation-companies and loads
of other companies i do not know what their business is (since i
can't read the texts next to the logos).

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