Spent a few days in Tokyo. Looked about the same as before, the girls are as cute as ever, only now wearing christmas hats. Total winner.
Didn't bother going paparazzi or even tourist. I only took one picture and that was next to the Shinjuku station (cool blue tree)
Did lots of dvd shopping of course. Much easier nowadays that I can read katakana and know to stay away from stores that say アニメ (anime) or アダルト (adult). I did still manage to walk into one sex toy shop. Well, actually two. Ran away screaming when I saw the first Barbara...
(if you can't read any Japanese, it can be difficult to distinguish between movie and AV shops. The shops are very small, and they don't have front window... just door and a sign saying "DVD". In Akiba the shops are often in the 4th or 5th floor.)
I'm now in Finland (for a few weeks only, then back to Nippon). Took bloody 25 hours to get from Hotel Tateshina in Tokyo to my hometown in Central Finland. And the flight was delayed by 3½ hours thanks to snow storm in Helsinki. It was damn long day, as Finland is 7 hours behind Japan. Luckily, jet lag has never been much of a problem for me (probably because my sleeping rythm is so fucked up even normally that +- 7 hours doesn't really make difference my body could notice

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