We woke a little bleary eyed but super excited for our first full day in Tokyo. We’re just a couple of wide eyed freedom seekers and we had big plans… but first… coffee.
We found a pretty cool cafe nearby – the Blue Bottle Cafe. Macchiatos were consumed, pain au chocolates were inhaled and spirits were suitably lifted. I didn’t say anything about us not being wankers – there’ll be a lot of it in this blog.
Anyway we didn’t have much time to spare. We had booked one of those AirBnB “experiences” mainly because we were super keen to see some Japanese music but were finding it tricky to access. That’s where Hirotaki “Hiro” and his J-Rock experience comes in. We’d been messaging back and forth in the lead up to today and Hiro had arranged for the three of us to go to the Yatsui Festival – a massive music festival spread over 6 or so venues in the heart of Tokyo around the super hip Shibuya area. We started at midday and finally left around 7 pm. It was mind blowing. The artists were all Japanese and Hiro was an incredible guide, a passionate and knowledgeable music fan who dragged us up to the front of each venue. He even took us to a cool nearby sushi bar for lunch. It was too much but I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
Hiro and two very excited music fans
Number one!
Wednesday Campanella – no natural fibres were worn
Motoko “Motifour” Kida from Tricot. She was simply one of the best guitarists I have ever seen.
Otoboke Beaver from Kyoto. Punk with capital P.
Yoyoyoshie from Otoboke Beaver soloing while crowd surfing. Told you they were punk.
After that all that music we were hungry once more and ducked over to Meguro to a place called Tonki Tonkatsu for some amazing Pork Tonkatsu. They’ve been doing it for decades so they kinda know what they’re doing. After that home and a big decompress from our first day in Japan.
Tonki Tonkatsu. Nice hats and even nicer tonkatsu.
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