An aside.
The japanese have a bunch of onomatopoeia.
They are often doubled up words.
There's a
wikipedia page about it, which has some examples:
DokiDoki for instance is the sound of a heart beat.
YobuYobu is the sound an old person's wobbly legs make.
GiraGira is the sound of something shining in a dazzling fashion.
Remember this last one.
The next night was Emma's last night and so we moved hotels to somewhere with a little more style and class.
This is the room I chose:
Emma went with this:
She has a future as a crazy cat lady yet...
That evening we were booked into Robot Restaurant. This is the front of the building.
The ticket office is across the street, and the actual entrance is around the corner and down the street a bit for some reason.
It should be pointed out that at least 90% of the patrons for this are stupid gaijin. This is a show that is over the top wacky Japanese stuff solely for tourists. They probably don't speak much/any Japanese.
This door is the door immediately opposite the ticket office.
The door you might assume is the entrance to the robot restaurant if say, you spoke no Japanese and didn't understand when they told you upon handing you the tickets that the entrance was around the corner.
The Katakana translates as Gira Gira Ga-rusu, or sparkle sparkle girls, if you'd prefer.
The more perceptive of you may have noticed the black on white "18" sign above the doorway. I have
no idea what is in there, but I spent a glorious 15 minutes or so while Emma was picking up the tickets watching a fairly constant stream of people walk in with Robot Restaurant tickets and almost immediately come back out.
I'm torn as to whether my favourite was the british woman sheparding her husband and two boys ~12-13 years of age out with her hands practically over their eyes, or the big black American who went in with his two friends and as they were coming back out said "Yo boys, that shit's fo' after the robots!"
Anyway, tickets in hand we were told we could wait in the bar until the show was ready to start.
It is possibly the most gaudy thing I've ever seen
Complete with robot band:
The show is more or less what you would expect.
If you have literally no idea what to expect, hit me up, I have video of some of the show, I just can't be bothered to youtube it.
Afterwards we ate at Kyubey, a Sushi restaurant in the hotel.
We finished off the evening by having some drinks in the Luxury Lounge my suite afforded me access to. Emma had to pay a guest fee, because despite being more expensive, the Kitty room just doesn't have the perks.
I also breakfasted in the high rollers lounge the next morning.
After which we wandered around Shinjuku for a bit, had soem lunch, and I bid Emma farewell, leaving her to catch the limousine bus to the airport.
And I headed to the station to catch a train to Niigata.
