Shizuka and I were invited to Shibata (a town just on the outskirts of Niigata city) by Lindsey. Both Lindsey and Kat were counting down there days in Niigata so it was nice to grab another opportunity for a meal with them both. The place in question was a Thai restaurant that was called..... something Diner (help Kat- if i wasn't such a lazy blogger and written this nearer the actual event I may have remembered). Very nice meal, that was just about the right temperature - spicy wise. So that was the good taste,
And now the bad taste. Very popular in Japan is a gambling game called Pachinco. Basically you buy a load of ball bearings that you shove in a slot and watch it bounce around a load of pins some of which activate various gambling games and the opportunity to win more ball bearings. You then trade what you have won back at the counter. The machines are garish and so loud (Glen, Tomomi and I had a short go in Osaka) and the exterior is pretty much the same.
Unfortunately, the picure doesn't do this place justice, but opposite the restaurant was this Pachinco place - bright orange with firework look flurescent lights and complete with bright orange palm trees - I don't know how we resisted going in.
3 comments:
ha! i remember that place! did you ever work out the rules??
No, I've not been since. The only gaming place I have been to more than once is round one, and I only end up on the slot machines because they give you free tokens when you've been bowling! Never won a cuddly toy though
crew's i believe...oh niigata :) when you coming down south?!
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