Monday, February 05, 2007

Tales of Nippon: Enero 13, January 13th

Quede temprano con mis amigos en Shinjuku, originalmente no ibamos a salir de la estacion de JR, sino que seguiriamos rumbo a otro sitio, pero decidimos comer en la zona.
Tratamos de pasar una tienda de donas (donnuts, rosquillas... el nombre por el que las conozcais), pero desde que abrieron el lugar hace meses, siempre hay una fila de mas de media hora para comprar... La explicacion, o son las mejores donas del mundo o los japoneses son demasiado fanaticos a veces.
Fuimos a comer a un restaurante que se encuentra en lo alto de un edificio de oficinas, poca gente sabe de ellos, por lo que eramos los unicos extranjeros. El sitio era un sukiyai, como el shabu shabu, aunque este no era libre, pero estaba mucho mejor y nos explicaron bien como se debia hacer.
Despues fuimos a un sitio, que no recuerdo el nombre, simplemente a ver unas tiendas, buscando unas cosas, pero ibamos cortos de tiempo desafortunadamente.

La razon de nuestra prisa es que teniamos entradas para el museo de los esutudios Ghibli en Mitaka. Aunque es museo, solo hay numero limitado de entradas, y hay horarios para entrar. Ademas de eso, al parecer solo venden las entradas los miercoles en los comibinis Lawsans (Laaawwwwsssaaannnsss... dicho con acento britanico), o eso entendimos en la pagina web, y asi lo hicimos. La verdad lo que merece la pena es la primera planta, donde proyectan unas peliculas cortas exclusivas del museo y hay una habitacion dedicada a la animacion.
De ahi nos fuimos al karaoke, donde cayeron (y digo calleron, porque los matamos, jajajaja) clasicos como "New York New York", "Unusual" y temas de series y video juegos.
I met with my friends early in Shinjuku, we weren't going to go out of the JR station and head elsewhere, but in the end we decided to eat in the area.
We tried to go to a donnuts place, but since they opened months ago, they always have an over-half-an-hour line to get in... The reason, either they are the best donnuts in the world, or the Japanese are really grat fanatics.
We ate in a restaurant in the higher floors of an office building, few people know about it, so we where the only foreigners there. This was a sukiyaki place, similar to the shabu shabu, but not a free buffet one, but it was a lot beter and they explained to us how to cook it properly.
After that we went to a place which I can't remember the name, to look at some stores and look for some things, unfortunately we where short on time.
The reason for our hurry was that we had tickets for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. Even tought it's a museum, the number of visitors is limited, and there are schedules to get in. Also, it seems that you can only buy the tickets on Wednesdays at the Lawsons (Laaawwwsssaaannnsss.... said with a British accent) conbini stores, or so we understood at the webpage, and so we did. What really is worth it is the first floor, where they play exclusive animations and there's a room dedicated to animation.
From there we went to the karaoke, where many songs went down (and I say went down, because we just killed them, hahaha), clasics like "New York New York", "Unusual" and anime and video game themes.

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