Thursday during work, our supervisor said to Marisa, "You know, you have 3 days of vacation time during the summer break." That's Japanese for, "Why don't you take some time off?" so the three of us did. Friday was the first day of our summer break, and what better way to spend it than applying for your multiple re-entry permit for your VISA?
That whole ordeal took about 3 hours and 60 dollars, but after that, our vacation really began. We were already pretty far out from Satte at that point, so we figured we'd go down to Tokyo, specifically Ikebukuro. I'm not really sure how to describe Ikebukuro: it's cool, but not 'youth culture' cool like Shibuya; it's a nice place to go out on the town, but it's not trashy like Kabuki-cho. At any rate, we were famished by the time we arrived, so Joe took us to a ramen shop he'd been introduced to by his friends when he studied in Saitama last year.
I have never had ramen as good as the ramen I ate yesterday.
It wasn't like some fast food joint that you stop in at just to get a few quick noodles, oh no. It's a hole in the wall restaurant on the corner, with a line that stretches out the door. It was ramen gourmet. Really fantastic.
From there, Joe parted ways while Marisa and I met up with our friends from Kurihashi again, Lauren and Stephanie. We fully explored the Tokyuu Hands department store and the Sunshine 60 Building (where I got some fabulous green tea ice cream, by the way), and then headed home to crash.
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