We had a light lunch at a chain ramen shop because it was close, then headed to our scheduled event for the night at the Robot Restaurant. We didn’t eat here, as we’d been advised that the food wasn’t great. The show, however, was pretty awesome.

To start, here’s a couple photos of the lounge where we sat before the show started. Yes, that is a lot mirrors and lights and the guitarist is wearing a sweet robot outfit.

The show itself was pretty good – hard to go wrong with giant robots (you’ll see) and dancers. They weren’t amazing dancers, but the theme is good and the people were all pretty, and yeah, just a lot of fun.

The lady at the top is an audience member who was randomly picked to stand atop this robot and partake in a giant against another robot. Also giant.

This evil robot guy got eaten by a shark.

That is a huge robot snake. It moved around the tiny little stage and almost knocked peoples heads and drinks off.

These guys outfits were pretty cool, flashing lights and some neat hiphoppy dance moves.

LASERS MAKE IT BETTER.

After the show we went to a bar alley and into a tiny little place called the Albatross bar. I had a Darjeeling Liquer with milk, it was delicious. 🙂

This is the alley with all the bars, just a ton of little bars that seat 5-10 people each.

After the bar we went for ramen, but everyone ran out of battery life and we couldn’t navigate in the dark, in a foreign language for a backwater ramen shop without Google Maps. Sean gave up, hailed a passing cab and we all took the cab back to Shimo-kitazawa. My first time in a car driving on the left was weird! I sat in the front of the cab and marvelling when he turned left, from the left lane into the left lane.

We found a ramen shop easily. There are so many restaurants in this city it’s unreal. You can literally eat at any point along any given walking path.

This place had a vending machine where you ordered your food, and you bring the ticket in to get it. I put in 1000 yen and ordered a 900 yen item. 3 lights were still lit on the machine, indicating the ones I could still pick with my remaining yen. One had a picture of some noodles or bean sprouts and screw that. The other two had only Japanese writing on them. I picked one, Nik said it was the right one (neither of us having any idea at all) and pressed it.

10 minutes later I had my delicious soup with an extra egg in it. We took a photo of that magical extra egg button so we’d know what it looked like in the future.