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you know, the girls all dressed up, gothic, barbee, baby, there’s no particular dresscode, they are dressed the way they like .  Yoyogi is also the place for chillin’ in the park, at the entrance you have the typical rockabilly dancers, really funny and so serious at the same time…they really don’t want you to do a picture with them.  Another thing I had never seen before (I actually got to see it from friends we met over here), it’s the dancers, like 50 or 100 of them dancing, choreography but without music, yes, they all do the dance perfectly like a boys band would do but no sound.. that’s magic!

We were there to meet some friends of my girlfriend, so we hooked up and got to chill for a minute in the area before moving to our sunday “spend-money-sunday-rich man style” spot, the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku, you know…the one Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson used to hook up in Lost In Translation.  Very beautiful building, only 8 floors are used as a hotel, that’s crazy, with a swimming pool on top of the middle tower (yes, the building is 3 buildings next to each other) and the famous bar on the 52nd floor.  We had cocktails (no alcohol for me of course) and a sausage snack, I was really starving, had to eat something anyway.  We had a nice view on the city, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Tokyo Tower, you could see the major parts of Tokyo’s hotspots.   It’s definitely a thing to do when you’re in the area on a sunday, having a drink on top of the building.

As we continued our trip (with the friends) we started to feel a bit hungry and ran into a nice sushi bar, the plates were turning around the counter and you could choose of many different plates moving in front of you.  Every plate with the sushi’s on had another color or picture, depending on the price of it, which makes it really easy to count when you got like 6 or 7 little plates.  I’m not really into sushi, but I can enjoy the salmon/rice/wasabi sushi and preferably a bit roasted, that way it melts in your mouth like chocolate.  They really tried to fool us because every time we asked about a plate they tried to give us the most expensive one, that’s also the good thing about those colored plates, when it’s green you just don’t take haha (the cheapest being white!).  Food was great, my lady loved it, she’s really into that kind of sushi bar. I don’t even think we have one like that in Brussels.

Back to Shinjuku station, had to go back home because our homeboy Taro was waiting for us; he will be in Brussels tomorrow actually, staying at my crib while I’m here…sounds like a foreign exchange haha.  Jazzy Sport in Brussels, representing for Tokyo.  When we got home, the whole family was there, Mitsu, sound engineer and his girl and baby, Taro, Cro-Magnon, Sheguro, Kosuki!!! That’s beautiful, classic moments.  Went upstairs listening to some productions in the studio, I heard some interesting things like the “Scrabble” remix Mitsu is working on (What’s up Luigiiiii…haha!), I sleep right under the studio!  Anyway, I won’t tell too much about that, just that Mitsu The Beats is one hell of a producer, when I listen to his beats I see Tokyo (although he’s from up north, not Tokyo), mellow, funky, he’s the man.

When everybody thought this would be the end of our day and my girl went to sleep we received a phone call at 01am from the sound engineer asking if we wanted to roll, night ride through Tokyo… I was definitely down with that, taking my camera, going to the bay, on the other side to have a beautiful view of Tokyo via the Rainbow Bridge.  Unfortunately, lots of the lights in the city were already out, Tokyo tower lights were out, Rainbow Bridge, but not everything.  That way I could enjoy a view I had never seen before, from the other side, what an impressive city, crazy.  I was dead tired actually and thought we would go back home but instead of that, the boys talking in Japanese I couldn’t understand a word until we drove to Yokohama haha. Man, I’ve never seen so much water and many huge bridges in my life, we were so high in the sky on these bridges.  We passed through Kawasaki and thought it was fog but it was pollution, at least that’s what they told me, and I could see it coming out of industrial buildings, really scary for our environment if you ask me.  The ride was actually supposed to take me to a big 2km graffiti wall of fame but when we arrived they cleaned it up. Nothing, can you imagine 2km of beautiful graffiti just gone, foetsy…  Yokohama seems to be a nice town, i’m heading back over there on Tuesday to check out their big China town they got, the tallest building of the country and the bay, this “nightshop on every corner” city is interesting.

Back home, it’s 4:15am. Sayonara, I’m dead!