After the Friday variety show extravaganza, I was ready to do some chilling out. Thankfully I had made plans with my friend Tommy, who is doing Light Fellowship at Sun Academy, to go to the Tanabata Matsuri star festival in Aksakusa. It's this festival based off of Chinese folk-lore celebrating the only annual meeting of two stars that represent two lovers. The whole street was lined with vendors and paper streamers. There was the performance of a traditional dance, complete with the playing of classical Japanese folk music. I also saw a man dressed as Darth Vader and a shop that only sold plastic replicas of food, which restaurants use for advertisement. We had Okonomiyaki for dinner.
Afterwards, I was invited to return to the Sun Academy apartments, and celebrated 4th of July by going out clubbing. In a fairly hilarious turn of events, we went to the happening part of town someone read about in their guide book, only to discover that it was the gay club district (Tory, you warned me). Both the guys and girls were a little upset about this. Instead we hung around Kabukicho for a while before heading back to our apartments.
Now I need to plan for my week long trip. Fortunately, I will be spending Thursday night back here in Tokyo as a half way point on my way from Osaka to Sapporo. This way I can have a rest stop, and I only have to pack for 4 days.
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