Akihabara is jammed full of data and device companies. We checked in with a few but we did not have any luck in locating a wi-fi device that we could rent. They are set up like cell phones where you purchase the device and a contract. This was not really reasonable for us so we moved along.
Captain Beard Face, in his act of treason against "No-Shave-November", had to stop and get an electric razor while we were here as well. We did not search long before we were able to locate one in the "Donki (Don Quixote)" store. It was right between the horse head masks and the bubble bath. After this it was feedin' time so we started looking for a place we could sit. They have standing sushi bars here. We love sushi but come on...come on. The sitting place was a bakery. We grabbed a few delicious selections and had a seat looking out the window while we ate.
Hot dogs...hot dogs everywhere
Once we are in Akihabara and surrounded by all of the nerdaliciousness it is hard to leave. There was a little more shopping done than our feet would have liked so we decided to take a seat for a bit at the same coffee shop we had visited our first time here. Each of us had a large iced cocoa, much to the amusement of the cashier. It was nice and brisk outside so we decided to sit on the porch where it was easier to people watch. We were within range of about three girls dressed up in maid costumes attempting to advertise their cafes to the people walking by. It was neat getting to watch their tactics and see just how many people actually went to the cafes. Due to the nature of the cafes we figured it would be for teenagers and men. There were a lot of families with children going however.
** If you are not familiar with maid cafes, they are a big hit here. The waitresses in the cafe all dress up like maids and act out roles while you are dining. We have seen a few videos and the general idea seems to be that they act like a sibling to the guests. They may have you say or do certain things before giving you your food, which they draw on with ketchup! It is very cutesy and fun. There are a lot of restaurants like this here, just like the STARS cafe we went to. I (Chrissy) have also experienced this in the US at Disney. They have a restaurant there where they sort of rag on the guests for fun. It is the same here.
Anyway, there are maids everywhere here handing out flyers as you move along the main road. One of the girls in front of us was very bubbly and dancing almost the entire time to keep warm. The other girl just sort of stood there but they both seemed to obtain the same amount of interest.
After sitting for a while and watching the people go by we figured our feet were rested enough and decided to go back to Ueno park. We wanted to check out the science museum we saw on the way out of the other museum we have visited before. It did not take us to long to make it over and we were in and looking at super cool stuff before we knew it.
We got some audio guides to use during the tour which was really neat in some respects. It definitely elaborated on the exhibits which showed limited English. In other ways it was not so great because the audio was taking up a great deal of time and we still had a lot of museum to get through. We eventually just started skipping some in order to hear about the cooler stuff like DINOSAURS!
Our feet were really hurting but time was getting short so we had to sort of rush through the last half of the museum. We saw some really neat things and were able to get some cool pictures.
You could push a button and it would show how the jaw opens
That is an actual camel's hump
Each little person represents the number of people alive at different points in Japanese history
There are a lot now
When the museum was finally closing we were herded out with the rest. When we stepped outside however we found that it was raining. No umbrella...yikes. Luckily the gift shop just happened to have them for a few hundred Yen. A lot of gentlemen were running back in to grab a picture of this before moving out into the rain.
At this point we were tired and famished so we decided a sit down restaurant would be a good idea. Ueno has a small mall in the station and we were able to easily locate a place that looked pretty good. It turns out it was French food, not Japanese, but it was good!
We were feeling much better after finally having a good meal and rest and decided that we would hit one last place before going back to pack for tomorrow. Kyle really liked the pub across the street from the house so we stopped in there and had a toast to Tokyo and a thus far successful trip!
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