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April 13

Bossanova and Kiddieland

After hitting a yummy ramen joint in Harajuku, we went to Yoyogi Park with Kyoko and Kei, her boyfriend, and some other friends of theirs (Tanaka-san, etc.) so that they could practice Bossanova music for a band they're thinking of creating.

Afterwards, Kyoko went to see a musical called Car Man, which is apparently a reworked version of the classic musical Carmen, except with some gender twists. While Kyoko was watching this, Jen and I went with Kei to Kiddieland in Harajuka (Toys-R-Us's Geoffrey's 5-story wet dream), where Jen went crazy since they had so much cute stuff. Welcome to Japan.

We later walked to Shibuya to meet Kyoko, and then went looking for a place to eat, a pretty difficult feat being a Saturday in people-packed Shibuya. We ended up at a basement restaurant called Jyan-ka, which had some really creative dishes. Some were just ok, but a few were outstanding. I specifically remember a dish which was refried rice with egg and shiso (a japanese mint-like leaf), topped with ikura (salmon eggs). Yum!

After eating we headed home. Kei stayed over: slumber party, yay!