I just fell in love at the first sight… the streets were grey and busy but coloured by the beautiful sakuras that blossoms exactly in the week of spring that we got there, so yes, seeing that was really, really beautiful…
I loved Japan, the streets, the people, the food!!! The food was the best, Kung found a Soba place, which was very good and super cheap, it became my favourite restaurant.Japan has many different interesting zones, one day I decided to go Omonte Sanndo but I got lost and I ended at Harajuku, what a place… it’s a zone full of stores, vintage clothes, old toys, and all kinds of men’s and women’s fashion, the streets during daytime are super busy and in the weekends the people go there dressed in a different or exotic way. Which is a hobby that I found super funny so I decided to be part of those people dressed in a strange way or with costumes… Yes I attacked the zone with my super ninja boots!!
You can find all kind of stores, but mainly there’s a lot of clothes designed by local Japanese people, which are very cheap and very nice and also very different.
We were staying in a place called Roppongi. This is a busy area as well, both in the day and with its nightlife, the first night we decided to go to a karaoke bar, it was really, really, really very fun! You go there and you get a room full of neon lights and a booth with small table so you can eat and drink and the best thing which is to SING!
The sushi place where Kill Bill the movie was filmed was pretty near to our area, so the local Diageo people took us to dinner there, nice sushi and beautiful place!
Oh I miss Japan!!!
There’s a street called Akihabara. It’s a marvellous street, hahaha, because it’s full of electronic shops with cameras and computers at very accessible prices. Also there are stores just of video games and stores that have 4 or 5 floors and each floor has different kind of stuff, like in the first floors usually there’s electronic stuff, and on the upper levels they have costumes and machines and games everywhere! It is crazy! So many people spend their nights inside playing some “Japanese Casino games” which I found it out of the normal global nightlife that I have seen before…
During our days filming, we went to a beautiful place in Japan called Asakusa. There’s a big temple and there’s lots of traditional Japanese souvenirs. With Japanese demons, and lots of candy that they don’t look like candy, they look more like toys, yes Japanese sweets are very crazy and full of anime of course.
The music scene in Japan is very big, Japanese people listen to everything, including punk, trance , techno, house as well as hip hop and R&B, you can find everything.
There are a few places that obviously I searched for because of the music that I like, so I found a nice place called Air. It is medium sized, with very nice music and a very fresh atmosphere. Then there’s the WOMB, which is huge and normally has big events there and it’s very energetic.
I also went to Red Room - this is a smaller place and is more like a music gallery. You just go there, order a drink and sit and listen to the very fine taste of music that they have on that day. I went there one Sunday afternoon to listen a Swedish duo that played minimal Swing… something very new and very interesting.
Also I went to a Mexican restaurant!!! Yes! Ha ha I was super happy because I was going to eat Mexican food, but the place was a bar/restaurant so John, Kung and I decide to stay there having a beer and listening some Mexican live music and watching black & white old Mexican movies projected on the wall; very nice, I didn’t ever expect to find a place like this in the heart of Japan.
I got a pair of Ninja Boots, I just became crazy in the streets with them! Hahahaa MTV Japan also was with us all the time, one day they took us on a daytrip tour to Tepei. We went to a temple with a monk to do some meditation and then they took us to a theme park to make our team (MADE IN CHINA) pay our punishment for not being the winners of the challenge that they gave us in China. Which was pretty fun!
Yeah and like a week after in my took over with my ninja boots of Harajuku some Mtv crew was there filming people in Kimonos, but as soon as they saw me on my Japanese designer grey dress and my purple legins and my ninja boots dancing in the streets… they just stopped filming Kimonos… to come and see my super fashion Ninja boots.
Then they took us with the Diageo people for a very original dinner. Original because it was like a restaurant but with boats. The boats take you for a ride all the river while you have a very Japanese dinner and do some karaoke with your friends ;P
This time we got a new challenge - present a picture that describes Japan. The teams were the same as in China, but we called ourselves MADE IN JAPAN and our pictures were very original, we haven’t seen the pictures of the other team yet, but this time I’m sure that we are going to win!
I love the MTV challenges!
