Ok, Yeah as you read in the title this was the final day for us in this beautiful country called Japan, land of the rising sun and the Fuji san. I woke up early this morning, had an appointment with Mari @ J-Wave. I recorded a show for them that will be broadcasted next saturday around 1pm, J-Wave is the biggest station in Tokyo and they have a major exposure here, feel good about that because they spread good music into Tokyo’s air.
I have to give Andy & Mari a big hug because they took good care of me while at the station, J-Wave Ichiban!!! From there we did our last shopping, first to Asakusa, an area with a few temples and too much of a tourist spot for me, I heard too much english and too much french haha. I mean, if you come to Tokyo you must visit Asakusa, the temples of course but also the other side of the river with the crazy buildings, the craziest being the one with a big golden flame on the top. It’s a place where you will find the little cat figurines and samurai costumes and tons of other shit 
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Then we headed towards our favorite sushi spot in Shinjuku, right behind the station, couple of blocks towards Tokyo’s Park Hyatt hotel, right there we enjoyed the sushi the most, I love to see those plates move in front of me, like the food is dancing while i’m eating haha. Shinjuku is also the station to get your ticket to the airport by Narita Express aka the N’EX and the place for 3 million people a day to catch their trains to work.
But where we really wanted to end our day was of course Shibuya, for its extreme human overcrowded condition, its atmosphere, the lights and the shopping. Of course I passed by the family shop @ Jazzy Sport to say bye to Gaku and Shigeru, one of the people we lived with for two weeks. Then we went to look for my girls’ shoes, she has a 39size and weird enough sizes stop at 38 here and start again at size 40, how unlucky can you be right? Yeah I felt bad for her… Anyway, moving on… we went to Disk Union and HMV, you probably will ask yourself why since it’s not supposed to be more interesting than any other music chain store in the world; well, I dunno, it might be the most underground/alternative chain store i’ve seen in my life for real. I’ve never seen such shit like that before except in small local recordstores specialised in a few genres. I went straight to the world music, the hiphop and the soul and what I saw was simply amazing. They had everything, the best music in front of me, the best hiphop recommendations were mostly independent, underground, make sure to check the video out for more. Then, there was a cool staff member who recognised me from the saturday gig and called me behind the counter showing me the party pictures with me (and Edson) from the Jazzy Sport blog, that was really funny good looking out man. I really wanted to do a topic on the bikes here in Tokyo, crazy fixed gears I’ve seen here. If you don’t know what i’m talking about make sure to check pedalmafia, very nice site on fixed gear bikes.
Last store to hit was Tokyu Hands, the store with everything for the home. A famous name in Tokyo, and several stores around the city, big shop with many floors. This store has about everything you would search for days/weeks in Belgium haha. From rare batteries and cables for your computer to special pens and paper for school to paper frames for pictures, I mean, what you need….is there! Shibuya don’t stop even on our last day, the music rocks all over the neighbourhood and the lights on every building, every screen and every corner is definitely not good if you suffering from a severe headache, which was not my case, thank God. Heading back towards our home, need to settle for a minute right before moving again with our other supadupa cool roommate Kosuke.
He took us to a grill, and we enjoyed it so much, I think it was our best meal since we arrived haha, unfortunately it’s our last one 
, they had a coal grill they put in front of you and you just throw the meat, mostly beef and chicken on there, really good and melting in your mouth, wow! We home now, and try to get some sleep (it’s 1am) and knowing we need to wake up in 5 hours and hustling these big bags we have through a massive travelling crowd at rush hour, ow Lord I’m going to stop thinking about this. Well, people I hope you enjoyed this voyage as much as I did, I’m coming anytime soon to spin another couple of records, word! Tokyo Ichiban… sayonara.
Thank you Taro / Masaya / Gaku / Kosuke / Shigeru / Grooveman Spot / Mitsu & Gagle / Mari & Andy @ J-Wave / Sound Engineer at the studio driving the Volkswagen / Budamunky / the friends I met in Belgium from Tokyo / And everybody who helped us to have a great time in Tokyo. You guys rock!!
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