Floatyman
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Japan Trip Day 4 
20th-Apr-2009 03:38 pm
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Day 4, Sunday 15th March

For a change it was a beautiful day! Went to a doujinshi event at Tokyo Big Site called Haru Comic City 14. We didn't get away as early as we wanted but left at about midday. Caught a taxi as the trains take ages and have to make a fair few changes and with the three of us it was about the same price. Went for a hike around the whole area (with way to many stairs) trying to find where to buy tickets then got directed to buy the guide book and when got to the line got asked for a ticket again! Not sure if it was just that the girl didn’t know or we were gaijin but her superior told her to let us through.



I am told the event wasn’t as big as Comiket gets (no surprise there) but it was still pretty huge! Most of it seemed to be more directed towards girls which was a little disappointing for me but it was still a great experience to see. Sadly we had thought it closed at four but it actually closed at three and most people started packing up not long after two so didn’t get much of a chance to see anything which was disappointing. I followed Juunana and Spacexat at first as they headed for the Kuroshitsuji section and collected what they could. Went our seperate ways then and I headed for the Code Geass and Gurren Lagann sections. Saw some things and bought a couple of doujin but most of it wasn't my taste. Before realised it time was up and had only managed to look through one part of one hall. Raced over to the other hall but most of the people had packed up there stuff so wasn't a lot to see.


Headed back to the rooms and checked out each others hauls and lazed around a bit. Bought some Grape Fanta from the nearby vending machine which was pretty good and after a while went out to dinner. We went to this awesome Korean BBQ resturant. For those that don't know you get your pieces of meat and cook them on a grill in front of you then dip it in the sauces you are given. I also had a bowl of (I think) Ramen along with the beef and it was so good and was so hungry pretty well forgot to take a picture! We then went and had pancakes which were so good I did forget to take a picture!!!
Comments 
20th-Apr-2009 06:11 am (UTC)
I was curious as to how many days before you tried grape fanta. yum! when I was in japan all we had back here is orange... I hear that grape has only just arrived in certain china town stores in adelaide... mmm grape!

Also... did you try the hot coffee from vending machines? delicious!
21st-Apr-2009 01:35 am (UTC)
HAHA yes had the grape Fanta and it was good. But nothing compared to the melon Fanta!!! Man did I love that stuff!

No I didn't get a chance. They were changing most of the vending machines over to summer stock.
13th-May-2009 01:00 pm (UTC)
Mmmmmmm Grape fanta & Tokyo Big Site *________________________*

Did you go to any cosplay events there?
14th-May-2009 10:52 pm (UTC)
I actually really liked the Melon Fanta more but grape was pretty good!

I didn't go to a cosplay event there but I went to one near by called Harumi. That is my next Japan journal, its just taking me a while to get through photos and everything ><
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