"Gas Gas Panic is dead tonight. Let me hook you up"

We've spent the last few days exploring Tokyo and it is a truly awesome place. We've managed to get the hang of the Subway and I have learned the Kanji for cheese and potato. We took some time to wander around the Shinjuku area of the city which is full of flashing signs and adverts that mean nothing to us. We've been in to some of the video arcades and they are everything I thought they would be. We watched some guy play a drum game on the hardest setting and he was like a machine. Brownie has a video we'll upload it if we can.

Yesterday we wandered around Hagoita ichi which is a traditional fair around a temple to commemorate the year. It was really cool, there was loads of stuff I wanted to buy, but couldn't because I can't carry it around with me. Brownie and I got our fortunes, I got "Good Fortune" but apparently I'll get it after a sustained period of illness. Brownie got "Bad Fortune" telling him that he had many rivers to cross, far and wide, but that he wouldn't make it. To fix his bad fortune he had to tie the paper to some kind of rack. So his fortune is fixed, but I still have to suffer a nasty disease, great!

This morning we decided that because it was such a clear day, we would go up the Roppongi Hills Tower which is one of the largest buildings in Tokyo. The view was incredible. We could see all of Tokyo and, because it was so clear, all the way to Mt Fuji. We also wandered around the Art Museum that was showing a Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition some of his photos were quite good, however I am such a cynic when it comes to these things that I felt most of it was quite pretensious. Brownie however can see past this and I think he got more out of it than I did.

With our art craving satisfied we decided to head to Yokohama to see if we could get tickets for the Liverpool game. By the time we had got there, the ticket office had sold out of the cheapest tickets for ¥9000 (¥200 - £1). All they had left was the ¥22000 and ¥30000 tickets. Neither of us could afford to spend £150 to watch a football match so we had pretty much decided to give up. When a tout offered 2 ¥17000 tickets for ¥15000 each, we haggled with him and managed to get them for ¥18000 for the pair and off we went. The seats were good and the stadium is the massive 70,000 seat Yokohama Nissan Stadium, venue for the 2002 World Cup Final. Not a bad game, Liverpool were robbed 1 - 0 after having 3 goals disallowed and hitting the bar twice. Tomorrow, we're planning on doing things that are much cheaper, like gardens and temples, so expect more photos.