This entry was written by █████████████.
A lazy morning. Since I drank so much the previous night I woke up feeling kinda shit… We left our apartment at around 12 PM to go to Nyan Fes in Asakusa.
We passed by the place I was with █████████████ where he bought a dumb tourist hat. The convention was hosted on the 5th and 6th floors. We paid the entry fee on the 7th floor, and started to explore.
We browsed a bit and decided to wait in the lobby for █████████████ to join us. He arrived, ██████████████████████████████████████████, and we resumed looking around. It was a nice little convention.
█████████████████ both needed to withdraw more cash for Nyan Fes, and thankfully there was a 7/11 right down the street. We got some tamago sando and ate while walking back 😋.
While walking around and looking at things, I started to feel that I should really mail something back home. I bought a pretty necklace for my mom, a cute black kitty crochet doll, and a Nyanco IC card sticker. █████████████ bought me a pretty postcard, and she got a lot of lil things as well. The convention was really nice, so many cute things. Underneath on the 4th floor was another convention, dedicated to animals overall. We didn’t have interest in it though.
The nyanco stickers are so good, the three of us got them for each of our IC cards. Nyankodasu
We decided we wanted to go to a cat cafe today, so I made a reservation online for about an hour from then. In the meantime, we explored Sensō-ji, the famous shrine grounds within Asakusa. █████████████ tried his luck at one of the love fortunes, and got a pretty bittersweet one. There’s a post you tie bad fortunes to in order to queue for ritualistic burning, so he put his up. It wasn’t that bad of a fortune… But it was so interesting to see all what the shrine grounds offer. █████████████ was heavily considering getting an Omamori and decided to think about it for a while more.
Nearby the shrines is Nakamise shopping street, holy touristslop. We tried street food from one of the stalls, Kinako Dango. I thought they were just okay, but the cold matcha they served with them was very good. █████████████ loved both the dango and drink, █████████████ prob thought they were decent too. The dango was very powdery, so a lot of the kinako got on my camera and clothes while eating, uggggg…
We arrived at the cat cafe’s location 15 minutes early from our reservation, so the manager told us to wait. Since it was reached via an interesting staircase on the second floor of its building, we went all the way up! Reaching the roof gave us an incredible view of Asakusa, with such beautiful surroundings. There was a hotel across the street from where we were, and it was possible to see each room’s occupants in the windows so clearly. A little kid hiding once noticing us looking at him from the roof, foreigner families playing games and knocking things off the table, a girl pondering, and others doing miscellaneous things. It was a nice sight to see…
Our reservation time had come, so we went back down and entered the nyanko zone. The kitties mostly looked tired and unenergetic, pretty cute anyways but I wish there were excitable affectionate kitties.
This cat was placed on our table by staff and looked sleepy and bored. He didn’t really gaf about us until █████████████'s galette was placed on the table, immediately woke up and started sniffing at it lol. Very cute, was a super soft kitty too. After we finished our food and drank yummy Darjeeling tea, we went around and patted many more kitties. My favorite was the very fluffy white one named Fran Fran. Sadly, she was very sleepy and unexcitable like most other cats there…
We left the cat cafe. █████████████ wanted to buy a hair comb so we went to Daiso, then got on the Ginza line, which is one of the oldest metro lines in the world. It’s such a funny contrast to the newer lines, felt so much more cramped. This line is also mentioned in Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world.
We quickly arrived at yet another incredible otaku supercenter, Radio Kaikan.
We looked around at all of the cool asf items. One of the coolest stores felt like it was for buying little Gachapon items without any RNG or capsules. I saw a Komari from Little Busters figurine, wanted to get her so badly but decided not to…
There were so many floors here, the very last one at the top was interestingly barren. We took the elevator down and headed to Yodabashi Camera next.
I finally got a GOOD sd card reader. The one I got in France was actually fucking trash, I always thought that Windows sucks at processing photos but it was actually the shitty reader.
Yodabashi Camera has a floor above dedicated to just restaurants. We were circling around the area deciding which one to eat at, and decided on getting tsukemen. Was so excited, I missed eating this so much… And it was so delicious!!! All of us loved our bowls, yummy yummy yummy… My tsukemen wasn’t spicy enough so I lowkey just put a billion spices in. Still wasn’t sufficient spice level, but good anyways.
We soon separated from █████████████ after eating and went home.
