Last day in Japan: Sumo, Ninjas and Cosplay. Most Japanese day in history!

Last day in Tokyo :(

But luck assisted me. 

Sumo tournament, ninja event and cosplay meeting were in town that day!

Most japanese day ever

The Traveler

First thing in the morning I went to the Sumo stadium at Ryogoku to watch a Sumo tournament

The atmophere was highly Japanese. There were no seats, but squared spaces n which was possibleto seat and eat with friends, while watching sumo

fat people everywhere 

Although the tournament was really interesting I had no time to see the end. 

I rushed to the Ueno park to see the end of the Ninja event

At the park I also spotted some Fonzie wannabe dancing rock and roll. Just because, they had no specific reason to be there, just having fun together. 

Love it

Unexpectedly, in Ueno park I also came through Tokugawa's shrine. Tokugawa Ieyasu is the Japanese Garibaldi, the man that unified the country.

The trees colours were amazing

Here's a statue of the last samurai in history, Saigo Takamori

Next to Ueno park there's a nice shopping street where I lost myself some time

The Otaku

At night instead, I went to Tokyo Dome to take a look at a Cosplay event 

Cosplay = people dressed as videogame or manga's characters 

Too bad it was forbidden to take pictures unless you had a specific badge.

The all thing was extremely serious, and most costumes were extremely impressive.

Again, too bad I couldn't take any pics of them

The Tokyo Dome itself was extremely impressive, it was like a little city itself

The Eater

I didn't have any interesting eats that day, as much a  the next morning at the airport.

Here's a balck co...banana!

At the airport instead I found Wasabi Kitkats!!!

and some drinking...Sweat?

The Weird

Have you ever wondered about Japanese's toilets? Here's an English tutorial about how to use the "spray"....

The Artist 

And so my trip comes to an end. Japan was definelty one of the most amazing countries I ever visited, can't wait to be back. It would be a dream to live there. We will see....

At the airport, this dog hugged me and told me to come back soon.

I will doggy, I definelty will.

Bye Bye Japan!

Japan day 6, Tokyo's Akihabara and Yanaka area

The Otaku/The Weird

Akihabara, electronics city. Dreamland of Japanese sub culture lovers.

Videogames, Manga, and related pornography

I spent here en entire day just strolling from a shop to the other, climbing up every floor, looking in every corner

This is allegedly the most competitive Arcade in all of Japan (world?) so I had to go there and have my ass kicked at Street Fighter

While usually first, second and third floor where used for electronics, videogames and mangas, fourth and fifth floor where exclusive for animated and real pornography (no prostitution)....not sure what the date at the corner of the poster means...

The Traveler/The Eater

After that, I moved to Yanaka, a part of the city known for street food and temples!

It was interesting to walk the quiet streets and the empty temples, so close to the crowded center...

here's some people playing with spinning tops

Here's the beginning of the street food area

this shop had a lot of photos on the wall, apparently it was famous

It served some fried meat things...quite good actually!

And what follows it's a magical moment.

I found this cozy, family runned, small okonomiyaki resturant

Inside the small restaurant, mom, dad and son were working together, and despite they could not speak any english they were very kind helping me having an amazing okonomiyaki experience

You are supposed to cook the thing yourself...but I asked for help!

Delicuious!

I ended the day getting lost in the small alleys walking my way through temples on my way to the metro

Hot corn and onion soup...no thanks!

...and this is the view from the terrace of my hostel!

Thank you for reading, next episode the most (and last) japanese day ever: Sumo, Ninjas and cosplay!!!