Day 1: A letlag from hell

So we started our trip from Helsinki-Vantaa airport. There were huge queues to baggage drop and we lined for half an hour to the wrong line at first so after that it looked like we wouldn't make it in time to the correct luggage drop. Luckily Kohfel got us past the lines from Business class drop and we made it in time. Plane ride was long and tidious and the seats were really crampy. I didn't get much sleep in plane but we arrived safely to Tokyo, 50 minutes late from the schedule. Immigration and getting our luggage went really smoothly and we all got safely outta Narita airport. But then the jetlag started to hit us when we traveled from Narita to Minami-senju. Somehow I managed to get us totally lost on Minami-Senju and we wandered around for several minutes trying to look for our hotel (surely it was almost impossible to find a hotel that's literally one block away from the nearest 7-eleven). But we finally managed to find Hotel New Koyo and checked in there. Then it was time to go to Shibuya to meet our Japanese friend Qward.

We arrived to Shibuya and Hachiko exit was as mesmerizing as it was the first time too. We met Qward near the famous Hachiko statue (only 3 hours late from our original appointment time) and went to grab some okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki was delicious and getting something nice to eat was great! But then the jetlag started to hit me even harder and my head was almost spinning by the time we finished eating. After eating we went to Shibuya Game Kaikan arcade to play some music games, I tried my luck with Taiko no tatsujin and after failing miserably the first song I tried it clearly showed I shouldn't be touching those games for today. Then I had to hurry for the 男臭ぶちキレNIGHT！～其の23～ and got there without problems. After just seeing three bands the jetlag got really unbearable and I was almost falling asleep in the middle of the live house. I finally decided to leave from o-nest but it was a hard decision since one of my favourite Japanese bands THE LOCAL ART hadn't played there yet, they had the last time slot. I left with a really sad feeling and almost fell asleep in the train way back to hotel. At the hotel I found out my laptop's WLAN card doesn't support the network our hotel has, but I can still use a cable connection from the hotel's lobby.

So in conclusion the first day has not been what I dreamed it to be and I've even had some thoughts of "why did I have to come here". Maybe I'm just nitpicking and the horrible jetlag is having an affect to my mood, I hope tomorrow is a better day. It should be since it's the first day of Comic Market 77...