We're leaving on a jet plane...

Finally back in Tokyo for the last few days before (unfortunately) heading back home..

• Shinjuku - huge station again and there are a ton of department stores right around the station. Of course there is 1 or 2 men's levels and 3 or 4 women's levels. The outside is like a big financial/business district and lots of good architected skyscrapers around the city. At night, we went to Kobuki-cho, which is considered Tokyo's red light district! Lots of neon lights here again, roads were closed for the night and the place was filled with hostess bars, regular bars, pachinko places, etc. and lots of people hanging around. Not a place to bring a date but fun to walk around..
• Had A drink and dessert plate at Park Hyatt Hotel - the infamous bar featured in Lost in Translation! Extremely nice hotel and the New York Bar was located on the 52nd floor with great surrounding views of Tokyo/Shinjuku area. Very expensive and they also charge a cover charge of $20CDN per person if you stay after 8. We left at 7:30.
• Night at Roppongi Hills - spent a couple nights at Roppongi Hills, which is a huge modern shopping/commercial complex and probably the place where we saw the most foreigners hang out. Checked out Heartland (filled with foreigners in business attire and Japanese women a la meat market style..) and Roppongi Bar.
• Akihabara - this place is an anime and manga and electronics-enthusiast dream place to be. As soon as we walked out of Akihabara station, we were greeted with huge billboards of anime characters and also girls in maid outfits handing out flyers from everything from maid cafes (see below) to other stores. Walking around the streets here was another sensory overload and you could find everything anime-related, tons of duty-free stores, huge arcades and any kind of electronic you could want. If i could understand Japanese, i probably would have bought a DVD set of any anime series but unfortunately, 99% of the DVDs sold here have no english subtitles...
• Maid Cafe - haha! another truly Japanese experience. Went to find a maid cafe and found Royal Milk off one of the side streets in Akihabara. The novelty here is that you are served by girls in maid outfits and you ring a small little bell on your table to call them over. Of course, there was the language barrier again but it was pretty much point and order. No pics allowed in here. Guy beside us was wearing homemade ear muffs that resembled a cat or rabbit and was drawing cat people in his book.....weird but cool and nobody bothered to notice...
• Ueno Park - walked through the park to try and visit the Tokyo National Museum but got there with one hour before close and it was 1500 YEN each. Looked nice from the outside..

Today is our second last day and plan to spend it in Harajuku area and meet an old friend....stay tuned!