Solid stone stares!!!

Nothing can pierce you like the disapproving look of an old Japanese guy.

Yep that's me in a Pikachu suit on the Yamanote line (one of the most popular lines in Tokyo). Last Saturday we were invited to a Halloween party by a friend, and told
"there will be a costume competition", after fruitless hours of searching for the right costume Pikachu caught my eye.

After picking the suitably ridiculous costume it was time to embarrass myself even further by wearing it on the train! Most people just stared (as they do in Japan) but some younger people were like "Hey its Pikachu" all in all quite funny.

The party was at "Ben`s Cafe" there were quite a few gaijin (foreigners) there so it was nice to meet new people. I managed to come 2nd the competition, which is great considering I was pretty much just wearing a yellow towel suit!

We missed our last train home so we slept at a friends, where the drinking continued, and ended up with me waking up with the first hangover since coming to Japan (I think it was the Guinness that did it). One small oversight was that the only clothes I had was the Pikachu suit, so we walked through Shinjuku at 3pm, with me in the suit and Ben looking like he wanted to be far away from me !

It was a great night, I will try to get the rest of the photos from Ben so you can all see how the party was.