April 10 - Akihabara and the Tokyo Dome

First on the agenda this morning was a wander around the Akihabara district for video games and general noise. We decided to try lunch in the official AKB48 restaurant, since they're our new favorite J-Pop band.

Sadly, we totally misinterpreted Japanese culture and discovered the restaurant was not filled with adoring tweener AKB48 female fans, but instead an almost exclusively male clientele in their twenties through forties, who stared mesmerized at the screens showing AKB48 in a constant loop. We decided to nickname it as "Creepy Japanese Hooters", since effectively it was just a teenybopper-themed maid cafe.

After killing a few hours in playing insane Japanese video games, it was time for a Tokyo Giants game (against the hated Tokyo Swallows). Nothing says "take me out ti the ball game" like beef raman and Japanese curry.

The game went into extra innings, but by the end of the 11th we had sat in undersized Japanese stadium seats as long as our butts could survive, and it was getting late so we headed out. Turned out the Swallows ended up winning it in the 12th. (Curse you, Swallows!)

One more full day in Tokyo and we're almost done...