Finishing up the day

After I cleaned up a bit around my apartment, I headed off for Ueno Station. I took the Tokaido line from Totsuka to Tokyo, then switched to the Yamanote line to get to Ueno. I thought that I left a little late, but I got there right on time. I was surprised. I found AHda, he looked much skinnier from the last time I saw him which was about 1.5 years ago. He was all dressed up because he just got off of work. So we headed to the red light district of the Ueno area because he had heard that there was a good restaurant there. He couldn't find it so we just settled into any place, he was starving. I had what I thought was Chicken katsu-don. It was pretty good. The restaurant was kinda interesting. You had to order and pay before you sat down. I don't think I've ever ran into that in Japan except for maybe McDonalds.

Then after dinner we went to go play pool. Sometimes the people in the red light district are so annoying. They always come up to you and ask if you want a massage, or want to have a drink with someone. I think its funny sometimes, but this time, the hookers on the street were saying that. There are a grip of business guys in the area, so obviously business is booming. It's kinda weird, but at least one of them was helpful. We couldn't find a pool hall, but one of the people told us where it was, even though at first we thought he was lying to us. Once we went in, they put us on a waiting list. We were the 4th name on the list. Which would probably take a few hours, and it did.

Meanwhile, we walked around a little and he took me to Ueno park. It's a very famous park and they were getting ready for a festival the next day. It was nice at night, kinda. It was very dark and creepy, but there was this big lake in the middle with plants growing all over. There were a lot of homeless people living there too. He told me something that I never knew and it might be dangerous to be putting on my xanga. But I noticed something about vendors with the booths at the festivals have an amazing similarity and certain traits which would lead me to believe that they are part of an "organization" that is quite famous in Japan. The story AHda told me made sense and had logic behind it, so I'm convinced.

After that we went to have drinks at a bar/ cafe next to the pool hall. We played 6 games of 9-ball in a span of one hour. I won 4 games and lost 2. The 2 that I lost was because I made the mistake at the wrong time. I could have swept him, I was playing incredibly good that night. So good that we were both surprised. I was making super amazing shots, of course out of luck. But a win is a win.After that we needed to rush to the train station to get to his house before the last train left.

We made it on time. He lived by the Yurakucho Line, kind of near Odaiba. Which is made on artificial land, built on top of an old landfill...sounds spendid doesn't it? The area looked great, with all the developments and such, but the smell wasn't that good. His apartment was messy, but what should I expect from two brothers. We watched some TV and drank a little before he went to sleep. TV was interesting because the shows that were on. He had an Indian opera channel, and there was another program in Japanese spoken and hosted by foreigners. That's really rare in this country so I was surprised, since no one on the show was Japanese. I couldn't sleep until 5am because it was SOOOO DAMN HOT! It was bad because he had work the next day and needed to leave the house by 7:10am.