Tokyo Nightlife

The place we stayed was in the Shinjuku district, which is Tokyo’s version of sin city. All of the respect and tranquility of traditional Japan gets pretty frayed in this part of town. There are tons of people, and blindingly bright lights covering the whole area. We started off the night by buying beer from the vending machine in our hotel (awesome), and drinking it while we walked on the street to the clubs (also awesome).

Tyler and Aaron are really into jazz music so we found a smoky fourth floor jazz bar with live piano. The place was dark and small, it only had eight tables. It had a really upper-class feel, and the three bar tenders were extremely skilled at making drinks. I had a glass of their most expensive tequila. I have never honestly enjoyed sipping tequila before, but I thoroughly enjoyed this drink. Around midnight we got up to leave. When I was waiting by the elevator, one of the bar tenders told me he wanted to give me a gift, and presented me with a nice bottle of gin. I can’t tell you how happy this made me. I never really understood why Japan is such a huge gift giving culture, but I felt so appreciated and happy that I can see why they like gifts so much.

Down on the street, we found our way into a club owned by a guy from Nigeria. It was an odd group of people in the club, but I enjoy more of an international scene anyways. We drank and danced until early in the morning.