Woke up at like 7 AM, 1 hour before my alarm. Slept just below 6 hours tonight… I still don’t really feel sleep deprivated, as if I have immunity to it.
Today we move onto a new apartment. We leisurely packed our bags and then cleaned the apartment. The problem was that we had to check out at 10:00, but could only check in to the new apartment at 15:00. We really didn’t plan anything for today, so when it was time to get out, we were just back on the street with all of our bags.
Without too much thinking, I’ve decided that we should put the bags into 7/11 using Ecbo cloak app like I did on the first day. This freed up our hands for nicer planning. We got tamago sandos and went to Sangubashi park.
Thinking about a few different options, I felt like going to a cafe I’ve wanted to go to for a while would be the best choice for today, since It’s like 1.5 hours away and we needed to kill time. Well, I checked their instagram, and they were closed for today…
In the end I couldn’t come up with anything better other than going to Akiba again, and so we went. I didn’t take my camera out from backpack. I also texted █████████████ telling he could come with us too, and he said he’ll come in like a hour.
Went to the gachapon hall, which was much smaller than I expected. I got my first thingamabob which was a small phone.
We then went toCure Maid cafe. From what I learnt, its the oldest maid cafe in the world and a lot of animes were based on it. The atmosphere there was very chill, its nothing like what you probably expect from such places. It’s more like a normal cafe with waiters being in cute victorian maid dresses.
There were some more tastier-looking options to me, but you can’t not order houbi omurice on your first ever visit to a maid cafe. It was good, but nothing special to me. Not because food in this cafe was bad, it’s just a boring dish to me, I guess.
I also got «Fruit Candy Tea from the Magic Forest» with some milk and honey, and man it was good. One of the best teas I’ve ever had. They brought a pot of tea and I ended up drinking 3 cups of it. First with just honey, then with just milk, and then mixed together. Each combination was delicious in its own way. Just a year ago I couldn’t imagine drinking tea without 2 spoons of sugar, and thought of adding milk to tea disgusted me. And nowadays I can’t stand having more than just a little bit of sugar in it…
There was gee store on the same floor as the cafe, so we walked around. I had it bookmarked for some reason, but I literally couldn’t remember why, until I saw that it actually had some Key-related merch. This is literally the first time I see Key merch in Japan, I have literally no idea why is it so rare. Regardless, I didn’t end up buying anything, as I didn’t see any cool t-shirts and I don’t have any spots to put keychains anymore.
The same floor ALSO had a cosplay store and omg it was amazing. It even had AIR cosplay… Everything was super expensive tho.
After we were done, we went into GiGO arcades and all played a ton of Chunithm. I finally figured out how to switch difficulty instead of just speed and tried Expert for the first time and holy fuck this is impossible. I can literally do Night of Knights on Advanced with speed 11 with full combo, but I fail Expert even with speed 4. The difference in difficulty is actually insane.
We went back to Sangubashi and picked our bags from 7/11. I checked the maps and going to the next apartment by foot was actually the fastest way, since it was in Hatsudai, which neighbors Yoyogi. It sucked carrying the suitcases through the hills, but we’ve managed. Got my camera out from the backpack and got a couple of nice shots through the walk.
We checked into the room and… it’s worse than we expected. The photos made it look much better than it actually was. And for some reason listing said «2 minutes to Shinjuku!» while in reality the station is in like 10 minute walk and then u still have to ride for like 10 minutes. Wouldn’t say its literally bad, just worse than we thought overall.
Regardless, we were tired and just chilled out. Watched random ass youtube vids and had some nice convos as always while I was working on the new project.
I finally got hungry enough and we went to Coco Ichibanya… I’ve been waiting for this for soo long. It’s just as good as I remembered. I got my Level 3 spicy home-made Tonkatsu curry while █████████████ and █████████████ got mild and level 1 curry. █████████████ said that level 1 was too spicy for him, lol… These people can’t handle even a little bit for heat.
We had more interesting conversations, but █████████████ was getting tired and we had to split up and then go home.
