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14:41:39
Saturday afternoon and Gav/Stu were still AWOL, so we decided to press on with our plans regardless. Another nostalgic event - Chie and Leon cleaning there glasses in this passageway in Shinjuku -just like five years ago.
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14:42:39
There was all many of cloudy stuff coming off Leon's glasses but this picture hasn't really captured that.
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15:35:27
We thought it prudent to try and pack in a decent meal before continuing with our plans, so popped into Lorenzo's favourite spaghetti place in Shinjuku.
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17:17:40
So, here we are on the train on the way to Takaosan. I think Leon is re-enacting the Japanese joke from last night (but with oolong tea instead of beer).
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17:17:45
I was taking advantage of the almost empty train to spread out a bit, and get some much needed rest.
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18:09:36
So here we are at Takaosan now, one of the temple buildings on top of the mountain.
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18:09:41
A bit blurry - I think last night's beer drenching may have had an adverse effect on my camera.
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18:32:15
It was getting pretty dark by this point, so not much chance any pictures were going to come out!
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18:33:09
A picture of the three of us at the top of the mountain, in a place were there were less trees and so still a bit of light.
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18:33:48
Leon suggested putting the camera on a slow shutter setting then moving about a lot.
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18:50:29
The moon was just popping out, and I rather liked this night time scene with some silhoutted trees and part of the roof of one of the temple buildings... unfortunately the picture didn't really do it justice.
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19:08:11
The main reason for coming to Takaosan was to visit the beer garden. It was very crowded and on a one-in-one-out sort of system, but we were quite determined to sit it out, aided by the free beer they give you whilst you're waiting.
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19:55:24
Eventually our perserverance paid off, so here we are in the beer garden.
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20:52:20
Chie and Leon having a bit of a fight.
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20:53:30
One of the great things about the Takaosan beer garden is the night views out over the suburbs of Tokyo.
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20:53:37
Same again in landscape to get a bit more of that night view in. I was obviously really struggling to take non-blurry pictures today!
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20:53:58
Chie did a much better job.
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21:27:18
Another group's picture looked more fun than ours.
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21:31:07
Note here my hands were actually quite steady, but Chie was moving.
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21:35:51
Waiting to get on the cable car on the way back down.
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21:36:57
Here's the cable car (or Fenicular railway?).
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21:37:49
Leon attemts to get his head stuck between the bars.
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21:45:35
Leon wearing Chie's hat. Nice.
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21:47:05
Down at the bottom of the cable car run.
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22:03:02
Leon on the train on the way back to the centre of Tokyo.
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22:03:14
I think he's just pretending here.
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22:49:34
Apparently I also had to wear Chie's hat.
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00:10:03
Finally we got back to Shinjuku were we met up with Gav and Stu in the Dubliner's.
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00:42:09
After that we went for a somewhat fruitless wander to try and find somewhere fun around Shinjuku. I think this is a KFC advert, and Leon/Gav were somewhat surprised at the presence of bacon. Or something.
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00:58:20
This is Golden Gai, which we inspect for interesting bars etc. It was a bit disappointing. So a short while later the boys decided to head on to Shibuya, but me and Chie decided to call it a night.
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