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Because my current travelling companion is a woman, and capsule hotels usually don’t take their kind, despite there being a capsule hotel above me, I could not sleep comfortably in that wonderful japanese invention knowing she was suffering in a steamy internet cafe below. So I am sleeping my next to last night in Japan in a Manga cafe again.

Tomorrow I gotta go to Osaka to pick up my Kendo armor (with my name inscribed on it) and then its back to Tokyo for my last day. I hope my feet recover a bit, cause by the end of today they hurt like FUCK.

Anyway, today was expo day, it was great. Well time hit the hay, I can say in passing however that Capsule hotels, next to manga cafes are the fucking shit. They are so great! I’ll give ya the juicy morcels later.

It is really difficult to update your blog while travelling. I give kudos to all those who do!

Well I am back on Saturday evening Swedish time, so I guess on Sunday I’ll upload at least enough pics to cover the parts of my story so far. I got over 1000 pics to sort thought, and probably 30% of is is garbage or just duplicates I took to make sure I got at least one good one… heh.

Might blog before then, but I doubt it.

I hope some one meets me at the airport. (Vlad.. *cough* *cough*)

Well I wondered around nagoya for a few hours, and while I found several bars and tried to get some japanese people to take me with them, I ended up not going (as usual). Instead I ate some japanese curry rice and decided to turn in.

My initial plan was to take the sleeper train to Kyushu at 22.47 (arrives at 8am), then I learned that it only had sleeper cars and I would have to pay around 10000￥ for that, so I figured I’d rather spend a few thousand for sleeping in Nagoya and travel early in the morning with faster shinkansen.
So now I have to catch a shinkansen at 6.50 something, and until then I returned to my home, the manga cafe.

Sayaka suggested I try a capsule hotel, and amazingly there was one just across the street, but it was full. So fate moved me into the manga cafe.
Luckilly for me they even had a non-smoking section, something I neglected to ask for last time. Although it does not seem to be too effective.

In any case. I don’t know what it is that makes me feel so good here. Maybe the presence of technology, or geeks, or manga… But I feel nice here. At peace.

Oh, and that all night special was only during week days, but its ok, it will still only be like 2500 or something. Still cheaper then most hotels. And with earplugs, no problem.

In any case, signing off now. Gonna sleep, night.

Update: There is apparantly a capsule hotel in the same building as the manga cafe… how silly of me!

Got more pics up now. Click “Flickr” on the side menu. Or here.

The story behind the picture of my “hotel room” in 大吉 I will rescind in my next entry. Now I gotta book a sleeper train to Kyushu. Maybe.

I might just chill at this mangakissa all night.
I mean, I can watch all the anime I want, or read manga or play games, for peanuts.

I heard from a Japanese friend that apparently because the Mangakissa are so good, they are actually somewhat of a problem since a lot of people hang there all the time.

Nice.

//D

Free soft drinks, hot drinks, cup noodles, sandwiches, candy and all the manga you can read. You also get a computer, a TV, a PS2 and your own little cabin.

Don’t forget the slippers either!

This reclining chair aint too bad either.

All for just 300 yen per hour.

Shit.

Update: Please note that sleeping in a manga cafe costs between 1500 and 2000￥. It is quite comfy too. A good solution if you are stuck without a hotel. And since you get food and drink too, you are better off then in most smaller hotels. Just bring earplugs if you are sensitive.