Well this is it….. the Golden Turd!
Any ideas? Answers on a postcard please! Well it was the first thing I saw after leaving the safety of the metro system!
Someone told me it was supposed to be the head of a beer because it’s on top of the Asahi building. What an intro….
It’s in a bit more context here…
Well after having no sleep on the plane (I tried to no avail) I thought I should have a nice cultural walk. Check me out! Cultural. I love it really 🙂
You may have temple and statue blindness by the end of this blog!
So yeah I managed to have a productive afternoon!
The weirdest thing i saw that afternoon was the BABY SUMO. Yep you got it, 2 babies having a scrap…. well not really…. but it was a little weird. Parents line up with their kids to give them to 2 sumo wrestlers. Then the sumo fellas shake the babies up and down and the baby who cries the most wins! There was a massive queue of parents too! A not so secret sadist cult….
I thought the day may be a let down after this pinnacle of excitement but no.After returning to 
the hostel I was determined to laugh off my jet lag and stay up so I hit Shinjuku! Shinjuku is one of many places you go to shop until you drop with shopping malls 10 stories high, arcades with games galore and food places a plenty! I just wandered around soaking up the atmosphere: watching the sights, hearing the sounds and soaking up the smells. This is the only pic I took of shinjuku and it’s rubbish…. I was quite tired at this point.
Back to the hostel again after nearly falling asleep standing up on the metro and I thought that that would be that.
But no! Loads of people were up and milling about at the hostel so I thought I should make some friends. There was a good mix of nationalities there with quite a few younguns… just making me feel old. We went to the hostel’s bar with our free drinks tokens and the party started. We ended up trawling a few bars and then ultimately at a nightclub called Stella! What a name….. The club was seemingly boring until us lot turned up. On our bar crawl we managed to swell into a group of about 10 or so so when we got there we turned the place upside down! One girl we were with fell out of the club, split her lip and chipped a tooth….ouch!
By the time we got back it was about 730am….
A good night and a good start to my journey!
shyguy b 
Liking your styles. Glad to hear that you forgot to pack any common sense and decorum.
Re; the golden turd. If that is how the head of the beer looks then its still a Perroni for me! But i do like this rapid cooler http://www.asahibeer.co.uk/container.html ! Neat! There is another possibility that it is a golden sperm, it looks like it is about to attempt fertilisation of the neighbouring building. It maybe a ploy of the Asahi to monopolise the Tokyo skyline!!
Sumo baby shaking: You can see something similar at West Quay on a Saturday afternoon. But its termed Chav Mum baby shaking……but they are often of a similar size and have the similar ponytail high one the back of the bonce.
keep up the blogging.
big up
Bobbie Dazzler
@ Rob – I’m not sure he had any to pack.. 😀
(if he did no doubt it was decided to bulky for air travel and is currently in a container somewhere on the Indian Ocean by now…)
And I still think its a big shiny parsnip.
I feel sorry for the girl that chipped her tooth. I think you lot should have acted a lot more responsibly – I mean if you turn the place upside down you gotta be expecting people to fall out.
indeed 🙂