In Tokyo Halloween is like carnival in Barcelona. A lot of people partying whole night, wearing costumes. It’s a huge party and lots of fun. People take pictures on the street with strangers wearing different costumes, all smiling, happy and half drunk and with a great imagination for costume creation :-D
So, so far our costumes for this night are following:
- Me – a black witch (I decided to stick to reality haha)
- Juli – face painted as Paul Stanley from KISS
- Diego – wearing a goblin mask
- Naho – pink haired “slutty” girl (or as she said Chinese prostitute – here you can easily feel a tension between Japanese and Chinese
Actually Naho’s costume could be a regular base clothes in Tokyo, the only different would make her pink devil corns :-D
Shibuya is marked by its famous Hachiko cross, the busiest cross in Tokyo.
Among CS-ers we see Elizabeth, some familiar faces from Nabe home dinner and Michiko, a girl we met in Barcelona, when she was traveling around Europe.
After beers in Shibuya we take a subway and after 2 stops get out to discover some new area of bars and pubs. The curious thing about this area, is that 15 bars have agreed to promote it, during 1 month starting with a Halloween night, offering 2 free drinks to each person who comes there wearing costume in the Halloween night. We couldn’t believe it. How it can be possible, that a group of 200 people (we were approximately group of 20, but when we got there, we saw much more people) gets 30 drinks for free, during 1 month? Yes, it’s possible!! Naho, Diego and other couchsurfers together with a crowd went to Halloween parade, making a circle around the area and then getting back to the initial point. Me, Juli, Michiko and Elizabeth went meanwhile to grab something to eat. After having some nuddles (soba yaki), we met them getting back from the parade, and organizers started to give everybody coupons with freed drinks.
On the left you cans see Bar’s name and then 2 squares mean 2 free drinks! (in Spain I guess they would get broke, since whole town would be there that night haha). As you see we didnt succeed in drinking it all, but since its valid for the whole month of November, we are tihinking to pass by last our last night in Tokyo, 7th of November :-D
After 3 hours drinking bloody maries, vodka oranges , gin tonics, beers and other, we became friends with one of organizers (he is dressed as woverine), drank half of his bar and got some promotional t-shirts, so the evening was pretty successful haha
I was dead tired (3 days with no sleep), but after getting some Japanese energy drink and then a coffee, I kind of recovered and kept drinking free drinks (how could I miss it :-D
Ok, it’s time to catch the last train and get back to Shibuya and go dancing. Naho and Diego and a couple of couchsurfers decide to go to some posh club, where a shuttle bus can take you for free from Shibuya. The problem is that the line for the bus is HUGE and can take may be an hour waiting, besides, the entrance in the club is 4,000 yen (28 Euro) and no drink included. We decide that for our budget is better to stay in Shibuya and we go with 3 more couchsurfers to a small club with music, free entrance and friendly prices.
The bar was ok, we stayed a bit, then went out to a convenience store, bought instant noodle soup and prepared it in the store (in Japan everything is perfectly organized, you can even get hot water in the shop and prepare noodle soup by yourself there) and couple of beers. Juli was hungry so he ate the soup, then we drank the beers and went back to Shibuya cross, making pictures with all curious characters on our way.
Later met Diego and Naho, went to some italian- japanese family restaurant and had a soup at 5 am in the morning and finally went back home to get some sleep :-D
It was a very long and crazy night, great fun, and I got a feeling that we really felt Tokyo vibe – CRAZY!!
Expenses control
- Beers: 1500 yen (11,45 €)
- Face painting: 298 yen (2,27 €)
- Food (noodles): 800 yen (6,11 €)
- Energy drink (which btw was a bomb): 196 yen (1,50 €)
- Coffee: 130 yen (0,99 €)
- Beers and noodle soup at the convenience store: 700 yenes (5,34 €)
- Restaurant at 5 am in the morning, before going home: 650 yenes (4,96 €)
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