Roppongi Friday

Aside from MacDonald's, Roppongi is probably the least japanese aspect of Japan. Anyhow, we went there to party yesterday. There were a bunch of swedes, french, spanish and japanese students from our residence tagging along. For those of you who haven't heard of Roppongi, it's a modern neon-light party district near Shibuya. It houses the rich, famous "Roppongi Hills" area with the Mori Tower as its centerpiece. The Park Hyatt is also located there.

Roppongi's nightlife is mainly geared towards foreigners and japanese women who wish to hook up with them, so it isn't exactly like the other party districts like in Shinjuku or Shibuya. The first place we went to was "Heartland" which is a bar/dance-kind-of -place right below the futuristic blue neon lights of the Mori tower. It was packed tighter than the low rims of Hell though, so we only got a few beers and waited for some japanese people who we were supposed to meet there. There were some... questionable women there. Maybe not the brightest demography, although it was pretty vibrant ^_^.

When the (more interesting) japanese women we had been waiting for came along, we headed out for a club a few floors up another building. It was called "Flower" and we weren't allowed in until some (apparently) famous japanese guy managed to sneak us inside. Said and done, and he bought us some shots and beers while inside! The club had great music and awesome people - and the best part was that we were like the only foreigners there. Also, they had more 'japanese' bar prices... so no rediculously overpriced Swedish alcohol. Flower rocked. Out Loud. They even had beer vending machines - inside the freaking club!

Oh, and clubs in Roppongi usually close around 6am, so of course we partied until closure. Got home around 7 I think... woke up again at 3pm today.

So far I've spent my day taking a 30-minute hot shower, buying a life's supply of stuff at the Daiei store for about 1000Yen ($10), and continued my chilling by watching a few episodes of The Office on my computer while eating some strange japanese cheese-doodles. I was supposed to go to a duty-free electronic store today with Alexandra and Malin, but nothing right now can disturb my lazy saturday.

Life's good.