Sayonara Japan

So we're about to leave the wonderful island that is Japan. I was only here for 2 days, but it felt like a week, waking up every hour of the night trying to figure out what time zone I was in. Yesterday was awesome, I went to the fish market with a very intense french girl who was always in a hurry to get everywhere however took about 300 pictures of the fish. This place is very hectic, and it's hard to believe any sea animal would be dumb enough to swim within 100 miles of Japan, the way they rape the sea life day in and day out. Smith and I finally met up around noon, and headed for Kama Kura (Big Buddha) which is about an hour outside the city. Had a great lunch by the train station where I ate a wasabi something or rather and started sweating from every pore, all the Japanese laughed at me. We then followed a woman and her daughter to some badass temple which we explored for an hour or so then went on to see the Big Buddha. They weren't kidding, it's huge, and 800 years old. We then went on a 1.6km hike to the next train station. After about 2 hours and 3km in the Japanese forest we ended up in some woman's backyard. We told her we were headed to Kita-Kama Kura, and she looked at us as if we were crazy and said something in Japanese along the lines of "Silly Americans!!! You have very long way to go, and rain is coming!!!" We told her we knew that, and she put us on the right path and left us with the kind of you would leave someone you knew you would never see again.

We made it to the station and got back to Shibuya, the land of the Super Cool Japanese Hipsters, and looked for some food. For some reason I traveled all the way to Japan and was dying for some good old fashioned American food, so I got a chili cheese burger, and a chili dog. I felt like an idiot, but it was fantastic. We then got an ice cream filled crepe and went to the bank (I was broke for a second time in 2 days) then split off to go to our respective holes in the wall for sleeping.

We met in the morning at the fish market and had some really fresh sushi and were complimented on our excellent use of the chopstick and told we were both "rearry good guys." At about 8:45 AM i stumbled upon my favorite vending machine... the one with the beer in it. By noon I had found 2 others, one which was sporting a 1000 ml can of Asahi which lasted me the entire hour subway ride. We had an excellent luncheon of Point and Pray which yielded Ramen, Tofu, Rice, Potstickers (goyza to those in the know) and some sore of yello (jello) dessert.

Tonight we head to Bangkok!!!

-Josh