Today our mission was to find our way to Sakura House Office and then trek our way back to the Embassy to grab our bags and then off to find our home for the next 3 months.
Tony was kind enough to drive us to Shinjuku and we made our way to the office, signing copious amounts of documents and quizzing the office staff for any information we had yet to pull out of Tony.
We then attempted our first ordering of food by ourselves. The waitresses spoke no english which was interesting, not even knowing what I meant by rice but we got there in the end by pointing and using the little Japanese that we've picked up so far. The food was delicious and cheaper than expected although paying presented a bit of a problem with the inability to ask to split the bill with our limited knowledge of Japanese and the guide books lack of phrases.
So with fuller stomachs and lighter wallets we made our way back to the New Zealand embassy on foot, only making one small mistake where we overshot a street but making our way back in one piece.
When we got there Tony again offered to drive us, this time to our new home. After some confusion and grabbing a courier man's attention to find the right address we finally made it. Lugging my bag up 4 flights of stairs was something of a mission but finally I reached my room, a little smaller and less amazing than the photos but it would do none the less!
After an hour and a half of uploading photos and skyping Liam we ventured out to try and navigate to Harajuku- a place known for its crazily dressed locals and bright shopping. We were not disappointed.
The streets are lit up like Christmas trees- some actually having Christmas trees too which I was super excited to see- and so much shopping that I can't wait to browse and buy from!
We finally stopped being distracted and found a place to eat- again it was delicious and reasonably priced so we split a few meals between us- again no English so Chris tried his hand at ordering in Japanese and all went well! but the meals were rather small so decided to pay and go back to a burger place we had found on our travel. More english was spoken here and we got our fill and tucked into a mcdonald's-esque meal to fill us up.
After an interesting interaction with the burger places toilet- filled with intrigue at how many buttons are really necessary and what the strange symbols could mean, we made our way home, stopping in a 7-Eleven to scope it out.
After a fairly relaxed day of exploring it seems as though my NZ body clock is still in play as I'm super tired and it's merely 10pm- 2am NZ time.
So I'm off to sleep now,
Sayanara
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