Ochanomizu

Another rainy day today. We didn't do too much because it was very cold and very wet. This afternoon we headed to the Ochanomizu area of Tokyo. There is quite a collection of musical instrument stores in Ochanomizu and my friend (who is a musician outside of life as a computer programmer) wanted to browse a few stores. The whole area is packed with stores offering every kind of instrument. There was even one store exclusively for violins.

We wandered around for a bit, going in and out of every guitar store we came across. My friend indicated that while he was seeing some guitars that just are not available in Canada or the U.S. he was noticing that prices were quite a bit higher here in Japan. Tired of the rain, we headed to Tokyo station to get something to eat. On Monday when we were heading to Kyoto we ate in a great noodle restaurant and we wanted to go back. After a great lunch of udon noodles in a curry soup with pork we headed to Shinjuku with the plan of visiting KrispyKreme. The lineup was fairly long and I felt like I was back on campus waiting in line at Tim Horton's in between classes but we managed to get away with a dozen donuts and headed back to the apartment.

Tomorrow we are heading to Mitaka to visit the Ghibli Museum a museum built by an animation studio.