{"id":228,"date":"2009-03-28T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-03-28T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T14:37:01","slug":"shibuya-gothika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/228","title":{"rendered":"Shibuya Gothika"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my first Friday night out in Tokyo, I went to a goth club in Shibuya. <\/p>\n

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Fighting off exhaustion after 17 hours flying and in airports, and another 2 hours on the train to get to Shinjuku from Narita, I nearly passed out at the hotel, but managed to stay awake long enough to call Conrad, get her to persuade me to come out with her for a bite to eat, and then stagger out on the town with herself and Messrs. Wadman and Gorman; delightful companions one and all. <\/p>\n

We navigated the underground walkway adjoining the Keio Plaza to Shinjuku, then went 3 stops south to Shibuya, where we crossed the famous intersection<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Gorman walked us around to see the sights, then took us to the Christon Cafe<\/a> for some extreme Goth fun. The decor was pretty amazing – a spooky gothic cathedral complete with stained glass window, massive chandeliers and stone walls – all in a basement two floors below street level in Shibuya. As is now officially tradition for Heather & I, we ate steak together, I had a Sapporo, and then I hit the wall. The gentlemen kindly picked up the bill (I owe you, Wadman) and we departed to go see the statue of Hachiko<\/a>, the cutest and most loyal puppy in the whole world, and deal with my little internet problem.<\/p>\n

Then, we went back outside, and enjoyed some free musical entertainment. Here, you can enjoy it too…<\/p>\n

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On my first Friday night out in Tokyo, I went to a goth club in Shibuya. Fighting off exhaustion after 17 hours flying and in airports, and another 2 hours on the train to get to Shinjuku from Narita, I nearly passed out at the hotel, but managed to stay awake long enough to call […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[440,431,433,429,438,434,437,439,428,430,427,432],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","tag-christon-cafe","tag-conrad","tag-gorman","tag-goth","tag-hachiko","tag-jet-lag","tag-musical-entertainment","tag-sapporo","tag-shibuya","tag-steak","tag-tokyo","tag-wadman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}