12.02.2018 TOKYO

While eating breakfast at the hostel, we were chatted up by a very talkactive Dane (or Finne, I’m not quite sure) and got to know a German with roots in Vietnam, who was doing an exchange year in Japan, as well as a Canadian (from Montreal).
Afterwards, we wanted to see Tsukiji fish market, however when we got there it was closed – we learned that in Japan, when Sunday is a holiday, the following Monday is a holiday as well (Sunday the 13th was Foundation day).

So instead, we visited the Snoopy Museum, which was a lot bigger than I anticipated. The first part of the exhibition was dedicated to all of the ongoing love stories within the Peanuts Comics, since it was Valentines Day only two days later. The museum showed a great collection of Peanuts comics and related items, as well as old sketches from Charles M. Schulz. The museum’s shop was naturally stuffed with Peanuts cuddly toys and other fan articles, it felt like one could fill entire houses with it.

Outside of the actual Museum stood a big yellow Food Truck serving Hot Dogs with an engraved Snoopy on them:

Later that day, we had a (nonalcoholic, as I’m not 20 yet – thanks Japan) drink at Hard Rock Cafe, went shopping at a 100yen store and walked around in Shibuya, where we visited an arcade and I bought a sweet little backpack as replacement for my purse (too one-sided).

In the evening, we went back to the area of the fish market to eat dinner at a really great Kaiten Sushi (conveyor belt sushi) restaurant. There they offered matcha tea powder from a shaker and hot water to mix yourself, I found that pretty interesting.

current BGC: 2 (+1)