After we had finally packed the last member of our car family, Pate, in a container, we headed towards the biggest mertopolitan city in the world, Tokyo. The crew was pretty much dead after the karaoke bar and after a few unintentional naps the train was in Tokyo. At this point we has so much stuff with us that we decided to drop some of them to the lockers at the station and left for the futuristic teen heaven of Shibuya. We found great net cafe to sleep in, and spent the night with some booze. In the night we found out there were some Finns in the place as we woke up when some Jukka needed to empty his stomach.
In the morning we went to see all sorts of weirdos in Harajuku. Tokyo is huge, so most of the time you are just wandering around in wonder. We found ourselves in Roppongi and spent the evening in that part of the city. In the morning I thought I ended up in the morgue, but it came clear that we had found a capsule hotel and decided to stay there. Not a bad choice and a good alternative for the net cafes. After getting up we left to sniff around Akihabara, a world of electronics inside Tokyo. The cash was almost nonexistent and on top of that my bank had closed my Visa, so we were running on empty.
In the evening we got some dimes out of the ATM and headed for the entertainment district of Shinjiku accompanied with a couple of mega strong ciders. As the evening turned into night everyone managed to get lost somewhere. I found Toni in the morning at a net cafe, and we found Ville at the train station in the afternoon. As it was the last night we visited the harbor area, Odaiba island to be exact. It’s a pretty view to the city from there, have to admit. After a little mess-up with the tickets we decided to walk over the Rainbow bridge to the next train station. The plan was to get our stuff and go for the Narita airport as our flight was going to leave early. So, it was going to be always so lovely airport night. The case just was that we didn´t have money to get our luggage out from the storage room. So we needed to search 200 yens somewhere. After 15 minutes of heavy searching we had 250 yens, so 50 extra, not bad at all.
Somehow we managed to miss the last train so we needed to take a taxi from the last station before the airport. As we had no cash left we asked the drivers if Maestro works. There might still be some on it. One of the drivers agreed to take us there, and did, but then we found out that his credit card reader doesn’t work with european cards. He was calling around and took it pretty lightly, he just asked us to give all we had. We gave him an incredible amount, 600 yens, and a packet of coffee we have had with us from the beginning. He was surprisingly pleased and even waved us off. Quite nice ending… We slept fine on the airport and in the morning continued towards Helsinki.
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