Ghibli and Robots and more video games!

Studio Ghibli Museum was awesome, even tho I don’t have very good pics. The best part was watching the animated film about cute little sumo wrestling mice. They had the same moves as the wrestlers we watched train yesterday.

Then we visited a bird cafe.

Then lots of insane shopping at Don Quixote and Yokomashi. Then ramen in Golden Gai.

Then the Robot Restaurant which was its own kind of special. It was like every sequin, piece of glitter, and neon lights in all of Vegas crammed into one room. And throw in some Mardi Gras floats which were really big robots. Glorious

Then we played the 2 games I wanted to play in Japan - the drum game and the Flip the Table game (aka the Teresa Giudice game). We couldn’t find the flip the table game on Monday and our sweet guide Ren called almost every arcade in town looking for it. He found one in Kyoto and gave us directions for when we get there. And then, across the street from the robot restaurant the birds sang.

I played a bride who flipped the table holding her wedding cake and hit all the guests. Then I played an old lady at a nightclub who flipped a table with a champagne glass pyramid. She flipped the table onto a group of young men dancing in front of her like a boy band. I just can’t even make this stuff up

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OH YES WE DID!

Oh yes we did drive go-carts through Tokyo for 3 hours at night dressed like Mario Brothers without helmets or seatbelts. It was both crazy and crazy fun at the same time. I think we topped 70km/hr which Eric says is about 43mph. I’m sure it was perfectly safe. We drove across rainbow bridge too This is where I ogled the Valentino store in Ginza: And Rainbow Bridge in the background that we drove over... twice:

Kyoto is Crowded

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Japanese Ladies Restrooms - doing it right

Japan has the cleanest bathrooms I’ve ever been in. And I’ve been in a lot. Japan loves clean and they let you know it: They hate dirty bathrooms as demonstrated by angry emojis and “X” marks. I love that every toilet either has seat covers or this cool cleaning spray that you put on toilet paper to clean the seat: Some toilets even have a place to put your kid while you pee: I’ve visited bathrooms in train stations, bus stations, temples and forests. The forest was the worst but it still beat any US National Park restroom! And then there’s this on literally every toilet: I can’t figure out if it’s safe to use in a public restroom because it doesn’t feel right to clean yourself with the same receptacle where so much grossness happens. I finally got up the nerve to try it once in the hotel room and it’s just okay. But everything else in Japan’s restrooms is great!

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