Thursday, July 18, 2013
Japan July 2013 - Day 11 ( Tokyo)
Amazingly, although we slept at around 0400, my friend woke up at
around 0800, and I lazed around till around 0900. After washing up, we
decided to go for the Mac's breakfast, but it was too late so we went
around and found Excelsior Coffee where we had breakfast there instead. I
had the ham and cheese set with Royal Milk Tea at 380 yen ( which I
think is a pretty good price).
After breakfast, we went to the nearby Asakusa Nekoen (浅草ねこ園) - Asakusa Cat Cafe to visit the cats. This is actually the main reason why my friend flew over to Tokyo to join me as we wanted to visit cat cafes.
The Asakusa Nekoen is a very cosy place on the 6th floor of a building at the corner of Umamichi and Kotoitoi streets. The owner is a very friendly and sweet lady who obviously cares for the welfare of cats and she shared alot of information on animal welfare in Japan with us. She is also interested in similar efforst overseas as she mention a cat cafe in Singapore. Unfortunately,as far as I know, she is referring to the NUS Cat Cafe which isn't an actual cafe (AFAIK, anyone with more info please let me know) but rather a club for cat caregivers in NUS.
The rates at this cafe is 800 yen for the first hour and 200 yen for every subsequent 30 mins. We wanted to stay there for only 1 hr, but ended up staying for 1 and a half so we paid 1000 yen for 90 mins of kitty fun and boy were the kitties crazy! There were around 10 adult cats, probably, and 3 kittens. Those 3 kittens ran the whole show. They ran, jumped, fought, flipped and did all the cute kitty things imaginable. We were loathe to leave but well, we had to because we wanted to explore other places as well.
After having so much fun at the cafe, we went in search of food. We bought some onigiri at a shop that was nearby, and went waking along Nakamise street for some Asakusa Menchi stall that my friend had heard was very good. Along the way, we bought some ningyoyaki which was suppose to be quite good. We spent about 200 yen on a small packet of 10 to share between us.
After consulting google and google maps, we managed to find the Asakusa Menchi stall that my friend was looking for. It's basically a minced meat tonkatsu, but it contains beef so I didn't eat it. However my friend enjoyed it, so if you are in the area, do drop by Nakamise near the entrance of Sensoji. The stall is on the left of Nakamise if you face Sensoji, please refer to the following map to find it. Asakusa Menchi
We pretty much walked all over Asakusa, and ended our day with a dinner at Matsuya curry rice where you order your food by buying a ticket. The food here is not bad but it's kinda warm so if you can't stand the heat, you'd be better off elsewhere. I had a spicy pork (intended to order original pork but didn't read properly -.-) but I lucked out in that this is Japanese curry, so it's not as spicy as well, Chinese curry. One serving is 530 yen, upsize is 630 yen.
And that, is our day in brief. More neko cafes tomorrow!
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After breakfast, we went to the nearby Asakusa Nekoen (浅草ねこ園) - Asakusa Cat Cafe to visit the cats. This is actually the main reason why my friend flew over to Tokyo to join me as we wanted to visit cat cafes.
The Asakusa Nekoen is a very cosy place on the 6th floor of a building at the corner of Umamichi and Kotoitoi streets. The owner is a very friendly and sweet lady who obviously cares for the welfare of cats and she shared alot of information on animal welfare in Japan with us. She is also interested in similar efforst overseas as she mention a cat cafe in Singapore. Unfortunately,as far as I know, she is referring to the NUS Cat Cafe which isn't an actual cafe (AFAIK, anyone with more info please let me know) but rather a club for cat caregivers in NUS.
The rates at this cafe is 800 yen for the first hour and 200 yen for every subsequent 30 mins. We wanted to stay there for only 1 hr, but ended up staying for 1 and a half so we paid 1000 yen for 90 mins of kitty fun and boy were the kitties crazy! There were around 10 adult cats, probably, and 3 kittens. Those 3 kittens ran the whole show. They ran, jumped, fought, flipped and did all the cute kitty things imaginable. We were loathe to leave but well, we had to because we wanted to explore other places as well.
After consulting google and google maps, we managed to find the Asakusa Menchi stall that my friend was looking for. It's basically a minced meat tonkatsu, but it contains beef so I didn't eat it. However my friend enjoyed it, so if you are in the area, do drop by Nakamise near the entrance of Sensoji. The stall is on the left of Nakamise if you face Sensoji, please refer to the following map to find it. Asakusa Menchi
We pretty much walked all over Asakusa, and ended our day with a dinner at Matsuya curry rice where you order your food by buying a ticket. The food here is not bad but it's kinda warm so if you can't stand the heat, you'd be better off elsewhere. I had a spicy pork (intended to order original pork but didn't read properly -.-) but I lucked out in that this is Japanese curry, so it's not as spicy as well, Chinese curry. One serving is 530 yen, upsize is 630 yen.
And that, is our day in brief. More neko cafes tomorrow!
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