A Day in the Big Toe...

Brian and I have been busy most weekends, and resting on the weekends when we didn’t have to do something/be somewhere/meet someone. This weekend we are well-rested and have no other plans – so we’re heading off to Tokyo (the "Big Toe") for a day.

Tokyo isn’t that far from here, but traffic conditions pretty much prohibit driving, and expensive train fares prevent any over-riding desire to “just pop off to Tokyo” on a regular basis, so this is something of a rarity for us. In the past, long-long ago, before broadband and before we could navigate comfortably in Japanese, more frequent trips to Tokyo were necessary to procure little luxuries – English language books and magazines, and overseas food items (curry pastes and Kraft dinner!). Now – we get a wider variety of such items at cheaper prices, delivered to our door in less than a week. So what good is going to Tokyo?

While we would usually rather be riding our bikes in the mountains or drinking beer at our local beer hall than trekking around the megalopolis, since we haven’t been to the city in such a long time, we are both really looking forward to eating dinner at our favourite Mexican restaurant, sipping margaritas, and exploring what’s new in the strange and wonderful world of “Electric City”, Akihabara.

We’ll try to get some cool pics of the otaku and cosplay queens!!