Day 7: Harajuku with Hiro

It was time to meet Hiro at 14:00 but first we decided to go to Akiba because I wanted to check out some stores I didn't have time to go before. We left our hotel around 11:00 and browsed thru 3 different stores in Akiba. Akiba was super crowded because it was Sunday, and I thought it's not so good idea to go there on a Sunday. Around 15:00 we arrived to Harajuku and it was even more crowded because people were going to the Meiji temple to say new year's first prayers. We finally met Hiro and went to grab some burger from Freshness burger, it was okay but still nothing like you can get from Finnish grill stalls. After we had ate some burgers we went to Yoyogi park to see some street performers but unfortunately there were none because it was already getting dark and it's winter. So we left from Yoyogi park to the nearby Takeshita street to look for some souvenirs for my friends and for LEMONed shop. I didn't find much anything after all but it was still really nice to go to hide's LEMONed shop again! From LEMONed we went to some cafe to relax a bit and in cafe decided to head for Shinjuku to get wasted there.
Hiro wanted to check in at his hotel because he was carrying all his luggage the whole day so first we went to Shinjuku Washinton Hotel and we found a liqueur store nearby that hotel. So we bought some drinks and drank em at the corner of some skyscraper building. Then we went to some izakaya to get something to eat and some more drinks. Hiro was one of the most nicest guys I've met in Japan and we left back to our hotel around 23:00 slightly drunk. We didn't know whether we'd meet again because Hiro was gonna go back to his hometown in Kyoto the day after tomorrow so we already said goobyes. But luckily tomorrow we met him again which I'm gonna tell more about in Day 8 section :)