Whilst we waited for our check in (when Hotel Excellent say 3:00 they MEAN 3:00) , we started off with the OTHER side of Ebisu station and a quick visit to the Yebisu garden Palace. It's the headquarters of Sapporo brewing company. They have a free tour you can take showing you the history of Japanese brewing.
It's all in Japanese so we didn't really learn a lot but at the end there's a tasting lounge. Our kind of museum.
We also hit Ginza. It's the high-end shopping area in a town that is pretty much high end across the board. There's flagship stores of every top tier brand in Ginza and they're all amazing. We're talking like a multi story Chanel store the front of which is a video display like 6 stories high. It's full on – billions of yen flows probably flows through here on an hourly basis.
Not quite ready to drop the cash at the likes of Prada, we hit up Ito-ya – a 7-story stationery store. Doesn't sound that awesome but trust us, it was. For a non-Christian country they have the straight up illest Christmas cards you've ever seen.
Afterwards we hit 300 Bar, just off the main area. The gimmick is that everything here is Y300 – drinks, food – it's all 300. We were downing beers when an older dude came up and started talking to us. His name was Sato and works in a gallery in Ginza. He's pretty well travelled and had been to Australia a number of times (he's a fan of Perth btw). After a few drinks he said he'd show us a good, cheap restaurant in the area. Now, when this happens for some reason you think "hmm, is he gonna take us to an alley and try and knife us?" then you feel super bad for ever doubting that he was just being super nice, just like Sato was.
He'd also tried to get Lu eat some fish. She held out - raw squid is a big step.
He made the restaurant owner pose for a picture. for some reason, probably by way of my tipsy framing, dude looks like a midget.
And anyone who rocks the customary Old Japanese Dude bucket hat is alright by me.
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