Our last full day in Tokyo. I woke about 7.30 so had a great sleep and was feeling fine. Mio and Youichi were worried about me as they hadn’t seen me look that bad before – they had already told Kaoru that the ambulance station is only a couple of minutes away! I had breakfast and we left to start our day about 9.00 with a walk to the station.

We started with our customary trip to Harajuku to visit and pray at Meiji Jingu. Then a walk around Harajuku to Togu shrine, and then completed our walk through Takeshita street, via Daiso for some supplies. The Daiso on Takeshita street has had renovations and now has a Bic Camera in it! So we looked around there too.

We had finished this part of our day, and got to Ebisu around 11.40 – a bit early for our 12.15 meeting, but I called Gary and he managed to get there a bit early. He and Rikuko wanted to take us to a soba restaurant that they say is the best soba in Tokyo. I don’t really notice the difference to be honest – and we had to wait in line for 15 minutes to get in which gives it a cross to me 🙂 But it was good spending time with them and we had a great time together.

We said goodbye after lunch and walked around Ebisu shopping center for a while as Kaoru said it’s nice. Then it was off to Shinjuku for some more shopping. We went to a Daiso there (as the one in Harajuku didn’t have something we needed). Then it was off to the bookshop. Kaoru had reserved a number of books the other day when she went in by herself, but needed my passport to buy them tax free. So now my bag was heavy, so we went back home.

We walked to Mio’s from the station and were back about 5.30; so had a quick beer and then the 5 of us went out to dinner (this was the first dinner we had shared with Arisa as she had been at Juku every other night). We went to “New Texas” which was a steak restaurant. We had been there before but it was a great meal. And then it was back to Mio’s for finishing packing, and then some drinking, bath and bed.