Friday Night Lights
Running amok in Tokushima wasn't high on my agenda post-return, but the adventures of Friday night made staying local worthwhile. Running into characters at the clubs, flirting with suit-clad salarymen, satisfying my all-you-can-drink urges with a mere 1000yen for 4 hours (approx 13AUD), midnight snacking on some of THE MOST DELICIOUS chicken wings I have ever tasted and waking everyone up at the crack of dawn on Saturday with my incessant alarm... Not quite the homecoming I had planned, but memorable nonetheless.
Kobe Kids
Having spoken to my Melbourne mate Jarryd prior to visiting Australia, this weekend of madness had been in the works for quite a while. At the last minute though I decided to drag my friend Greg along and introduce him to the delights of Kobe - a city that, as a new JET, he hadn't been to yet. And so on Saturday morning we travelled by bus to Kobe. The beautiful city is about an hour and a half away from Tokushima - so why I have only been there twice before is beyond me!
Stepping off the bus and being greeted by the super stylish Jarryd was delightful. All squeals and hipster clothing, we hugged and then made our way to a little cafe under the train tracks for an avocado hamburger lunch, hangover-cure coffee and initial gossip sesh. Wandering around the sea-breeze swept city afterwards was pure bliss, as we took in smells of Chinatown and rifled through a Saturday market at Harbourland.
Post-market-shopping break with Jarryd (pic courtesy of Greg C)
But it was always about the party and Saturday night held nothing back. We went back to Jarryd's Port Island pad for a few pre-drinks, pop music and preening then headed out to Bar Iznt for a nomihodai birthday extravaganza. Meeting dozens of new JETs and getting our drink on was just the tonic needed and by 10pm all three of us were more than a little cut. Cue purikura picture time and an eventful walk to Sonic Club, before we began boozing again to the most entertaining DJ set I've heard in a long time.
With free entry for foreigners, cheap drinks, amazing music and more hot guys than you could poke a stick at, Sonic Club was a blast and the fact that we rolled home at 4am via Tits Park and a few relentless 20-year-old Japanese boys was testament to the good time I was having.
The hangover sucked balls however, and after dragging our sorry asses out of bed and through the shower at 11am we eventually made it the short distance to Ikea for Jarryd's weekend "church visit". Swedish meatballs, coffee and shopping made up for the pounding in my head for sure! Though it was all too pleasant to catch some light R&R back at the apartment in the afternoon, listening to K-Pop and browsing apps on our iphones.
Before we knew it, it was time for Greg and I to catch the Portliner back to Sannomiya Station and line up for the Bus of Doom back to Tokushima. All in all, a rip roaring weekend and a fantastic start back in Japan after all the bullshit that was. I'd leave you with a picture or two of Kobe city, but in all honesty, I didn't take any - I was far too busy enjoying myself to spend even a single second behind a lense! Oh well, next time dear readers. xx
I did, however, spend some time getting my picture taken - here's us at a purikura booth circa 10pm!
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