Had a late start to day 5 (which was technically my last full day in Japan), but we still did a lot, and lots of walking!

We started by getting food at this ramen place called Izobachi (note that the one we went to was only found in Apple Maps, not Google. Also, this place was at a food court in a mall where one of the Google offices is at):

https://food.johnmatienzo.com/2022/11/27/izobachi-misoramen/

We then went to a Starbucks in the same food court (one thing we did notice is that not only are there a lot of 7 elevens, but Starbucks is super plentiful).

Another interesting thing compared to the previous time I was in Japan is that they are cracking down on smoking (in the sense that there are now designated smoking sections. This used to not be the case).

Afterwards, we headed to Yoyogi park. We stopped by what seemed to be a Spanish food festival, and got an interesting sweet Belgian beer (pictured below).

From Yoyogi park we walked to Harajuku. We stopped by Uni Qlo, and IKEA, but didn’t by anything. We also walked through the street called Takeshita Atreet, where apparently they are famous for having people (usually girls) dress into cos play (honestly, the street was really packed, and there was a lot of shops, but only went in McDonald’s to use the waste basket and restroom).

As an aside, another thing to note about Japan is that they really don’t have a lot of garbage bins except for in restrooms, and occasionally near a vending machine outside).

Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel by walking. Along the way we did stop by a mall and Park that seems slightly similar to the Saleforce park, which was called Miyashita Park.

We then took a 3 hour rest back in the hotel (around 6:30pm) to prepare for a long night out.

So we made moves at 10:30pm. We met Ben G. near a dog statue at Shibuya station (see below). The history behind it is that the dog apparently always waited for his owner at the station every day he would come back from work. Also, we were trying to find food for dinner. Unfortunately most sit down places at 11pm were closing (and sit down speak easys) were closed by then, so I had to make due with eating things from a Lawsons while walking to the nightclub Womb. What I ate: chickatsu (basically a fried chicken patty), these chicken balls (one was with cheese, and another was with lemon), and a salmon onigiri).

The DJ we saw at Womb, we Hernan Cattaneo. He’s mainly progressive house without vocals. He was really good. Womb has 3 floors. Main and top floors were the best (top floor was playa house music). The last song was at 4am. After we got food at this Ramen place called Ichiran:

https://food.johnmatienzo.com/2022/11/27/ichiran/

The next day (basically 5 hours after the Ramen place) I was flying out to SF at 5pm. I checked out of the hotel at 1pm (it’s only 1000 yen per extra hour after 11am). Then we went to a conveyor belt sushi place 2 minute walk away from our hotel:

https://food.johnmatienzo.com/2022/11/27/kaisen-misakikou-shibuya-higashiguchi-shop/

Then took an Uber black (yea, it wasn’t a taxi… probably Uber cars only exist if going to and from the airport) to the airport at HND. It took about 30 minutes.

At the airport, used priority pass to get into the ANA lounge. Gotta say, one of the best lounges in terms of types of food, and they have a shower (see last picture below)! I also shopped at the duty free for Japanese Whisky. Unfortunately couldn’t find the one I wanted (wanted the Hibiki blended). Got a Suntory whisky.