[v.o.:] We took a train from Kyoto back to Tokyo again for the final days of our trip
in Japan.
It was a good plan - to go back and see all the things we had missed the first time around.
[Catherine:] It's so nice!
[v.o.:] We stayed in Akihabara, the land of electronics and maid cafes,
and plenty of games and gambling and, apparently, friends.
[Catherine:] i'm in this random store, and I just ran into Indy and Cody.
We were in high school jazz choir together, and like, somehow-
[Cody:] we're here!
[Indy:] Yeah we ran into- we hadn't seen her in years
[Catherine:] Yeah, literally since we graduated
[v.o.:] We saw the two iconic towers, and we circled
back to the areas we had enjoyed the first time around.
We found an impossibly cheap udon restaurant,
and multitudes of things we did not want to buy.
These last few days were about relaxing, and just winging it with our schedule.
It was a nice experience, to simply return, full circle to where we started,
and soak in the experience just a little more, to savor the flavor of this place that seemed
so oddly familiar but absolutely unintelligible.
[Catherine:] This is how you hold a Ninetails!
[v.o.:] I think our last days in Tokyo sum up my experience of the country pretty well.
Giant crowds, soaring technicolor towers, a complete absence of trash cans in any public
space, shopping complexes crammed with odd objects and useful items alike, the occasional
beautiful historic street, and of course, the many temples.
So thanks for the memories, Japan.
Thanks for having such a unique, well-defined character.
Thanks for your anime and your confounding transit system, your impeccably clean bathrooms
and your discounts for foreigners.
Thanks for all the things I understood, all the things I didn't, for your cultural products
and your history and your people.
And I will see you again later, at some point, probably.
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