Today we had a well-deserved sleep-in. We're so tired from our week of activities! Then we trained it to Akihabara to meet a guy who does computer music. Charles takes over:

Funada and Hide met us at Akihabara station and we all agreed to go for coffee before heading out to the "partsu shoppu" of Akihabara. Funada is a radio engineer but is also interested in computer music and cool projects. We talked about his iPhone applications and my performances and the different things I do with Arduinos, etc. Hide had come with him to help interpret, but I think he was very nervous about speaking in English and didn't say much. Even so, with a mixture of English and Japanese we could all be understood. Funada took us around the electronics market and to the backstreets of akihabara where there are some shops that sell electronics kits and parts. I bought a few small things that I would need for projects this year! Everything was *much* cheaper than Australia with a ridiculously huge range. Amazing. We all went to have a rest at another coffee shop and we exchanged Twitter addresses and he told me about some other artists in Japan who I might talk to. We took a few photos and then said goodbye to Funada and Hide. I think we all had fun, even Christina.

Christina: After we left Akihabara, we went to Ikebukuro because we heard that there was a nerdy place for girls to rival Akihabara for boys. But when we got there we were both really tired and bummed out. We ate food in the station building on the 15th floor, which took ages to find. When we were finished, we went outside to look for an interesting place to go, but we couldn't see anything and had no idea where to go. So we took the train back to Shinjuku and to our hotel.

We rested for a while, and at about 6pm we trained out to Ginza. Ginza is most interesting at night time because all of the buildings light up. We just walked around for a while and Charles tried on some pants at UniQlo. They were awesome but we couldn't be bothered to buy them.

We ate at Freshness Burger at Shinjuku, close to the hotel. Freshness Burger is my FAVOURITE. They put all other burgers to shame.

We had a dessert that was labelled as a cheesecake, looked like bread-and-butter pudding, and tasted like uncooked vanilla cake batter. I loved it.