Ikebukuro & Daikanyama & Halloween

Although we have to leave Tokyo tomorrow ( :( ), we have been having the best last few days. Yesterday we went to Ikebukuro, much like Akihabara but without so much of the seediness. We went to the enormous "Sunshine city" (think a massive corporation owned shopping plaza turned into its own underground city... like a westfield on steroids) and to the planetarium and aquarium within it. The planetarium was so cool - it was like we had been flung into deep space. We watched a spectacular film all in Japanese about space and our solar system. The aquarium was also amazing, the best thing being the two metre-tall Japanese spider crabs. Later that night we sat just outside the quieter, trendy Daikanyama train station drawing lipstick and eyeliner all over our faces, getting ready for a Halloween party and shocking a lot of salary-men coming home from work (see pictures). The party, hosted by Hana & Dan, was in a Peruvian restaurant (which served the best fried chicken - really, Japanese people can just do all kinds of food better than us (although Luci would like to add that they can NOT do coffee)). We were worried that there would only be Japanese speaking people at the party, but as soon as we sat down, Dan introduced us to some fellow australians, saying something along the lines of "and this guy here, he's from - what's the name of your band again?" Regurgitator, apparently. So we spent a lot of the night talking with Quan from Regurgitator, which was fantastic because Regurgitator was one of both mine and Luci's favourite childhood/early teenage years band, and his super nice girlfriend who is currently on student exchange in Tokyo and has inspired us to do the same once we begin uni (apparently the kind of subjects you can choose to do at a Japanese uni include learning to ride a bike and table tennis, so it really sounds quite easy + like a lot of fun). We actually met quite a few english speaking people from Australia, Canada and England, and it was quite nice for us both getting to talk to people other than just eachother for a while. This morning we are just heading back to our hostel in akakusa to sleep and then get ready to go and see a visual kei band (if you don't know what visual kei is, then you also don't know Luci, and you should go Google it immediately).
Also, because I love food, I have also posted a picture of the McDonald's burger I just ate, which is all normal and just like a egg-and-bacon mcmuffin - until you bite into it. The bun is actually two maple-syrup filled pikelets. It sounds gross.. but I actually think it's kinda amazing.

Sayonara until Kyoto
Annika
(Luci also promises to post real soon)