We woke up early, ate tamago sando and got ready for the Touhou convention, Reitaisai.
We went to the Shinjuku station and then on the Saikyo line. Strangely enough, some trains on the line switch directly to Rinkai line without any transfers, but… the train we got on wasn’t scheduled to do that, so we got off at the Oosaki station and had to wait for the train on the opposite platform.
█████████████ got some disgusting corn tea. It smells like corn, but tastes like ass. Overall, the journey took about 50 minutes. Of course, we only got seats 1 station before the destination. Tokyo Teleport Station has a cool name.
We walked to the Tokyo Big Sight hall 8, since we had Cirno pass, which makes you pull a lottery ticket for where you’ll stand in the line.
And so, I pulled… and got the 9th last spot in the entire queue… incredible luck.
I think overall we’ve ended up waiting for about an hour til we finally got in.
Just like last time, there was a ton of cool stuff, but since I’m a larper who never played any games, I only ended up buying Patchouli t-shirt (and even then probably wouldn’t do it if not for █████████████ nudging me). She got a lot more stuff than me.
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We sat down on the bench and rested before going back for another round. I don’t know how do I unlock this ability Japanese people have to be able to stand all day without their legs crumbling.
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We went to the cosplayer section, but this time I wasn’t that interested in photographing them much, and overall I left much less regretful than I did last time.
We thought what to do for a while, I wanted to go to Tsukemen restaurant in Ginza while █████████████ wanted to go to some Singaporean sandwiches restaurant in Ginza. Since both of us wanted something in Ginza, we’ve decided to go there and I let her lead the way.
We went in some strange direction in which nowhere goes, through the biggest parking spot I’ve ever seen in my life. When we got to where exit was supposed to be, all of them were locked up… we had to go thru a hole in a fence and that place was still locked… We could jump it fairly easily, but there was a lot of people on the road so it would be too awkward, and we just turned back.
While going back to the station, I’ve noticed that I got a mention from some Japanese guy on Twitter asking if I’m still at Reitaisai and that he would want to meet me. I checked over his account, and apparently I saw this guy tweeting about wanting to meet me on last Reitaisai too, and saw a few more funny mentions overall. I thought it was cool I had a Japanese fan like that (and seemingly a lot of them because of OldTweetDeck being popular in Japan). I tweeted that I’m already back at the station, but we could meet in Akihabara, since we’ll go there in a hour. He said yay yay and agreed to it.
We got out from the station and there was some forum going on, and the building itself had a really crazy structure. It was cool.
I don’t know how that happened, but instead of both plans, I was brought into Shake Shack the moment she saw it. I didn’t really like it that much because of how slop it was… Never letting myself be brought to slop places again.
We arrived to Akihabara and the road was again closed and you were free to walk on it, which was pretty cool. Soo many people though.
While waiting for the guy to arrive, we went to Amiami building, which disappointingly didn’t have any fumos.
We came out of the building and still had to wait for him, and we were super worried whether he’d be cool. Anxious af
Well, he came over and it was mostly just an average Japanese guy. It was still kinda awkward at start, and we’ve decided to go to Taito station. As expected, he was good as fuck at Chunithm. I didn’t have my headphones and was a bit nervous, so played much worse than usual 😭. We played 2 times each before leaving.
We went to BIC Camera and I bought same earphones as █████████████. We talked about going to the pub with his friends on Discord, so we went there now.
We met 1 girl and 2 more guys, one of them seemingly quite drunk already. I was feeling very awkward at first, but as we talked with my chopped Japanese and their chopped English + a ton of Google translate, things have gotten much more easy-going and fun. I really liked that they were all otakus and loved Touhou. All of the guys also loved OldTweetDeck and that was cool to see. We got treated to drinks and food as gratitude for Oldtweetdeck, lol.
After the pub, we’ve decided to walk to Kanda Myoujin Shrine. We were shown what various omamori meant and then taught how to pray/wish at the shrine. It was a nice cultural exchange. The shrine itself was mostly empty, probably because it was night. I’m glad we went here late.
We were then brought to AKIBA-HOBBY, and finally I found the Patchouli fumo I was searching for during the entire last trip!!
We just walked around Akiba at this point, and were taught the great word デカチチ. It was getting quite late, so we’ve decided to start wrapping things up and going back to the station. We exchanged our Twitters and followed each other. One by one, we separated with each other.
Overall it was so nice 🥺 I really really liked it, this was the best day so far. I’m excited to meet more people later.
My back and shoulders and legs hurt sooo much. Tomorrow will be a rest day.
