second day in tokyo

I started my day with some noodle soup for breakfast. You can order your food by looking at a display of plastic food and then putting money in and choosing your meal. The ticket you get tells the cook what to make you. It is a great system. I went to the Ghibli museum. I have never been to anything quite like it. The animation they have is beautiful and the building is like a giant  playground. There are little doors that you can sneak through, a spiral staircase and a giant cat-car that kids can climb on. They show a film that can only been seen at the museum and the ticket is an actual piece of slide from the movie! The movie was so good I almost cried. Ghibli films have the same effect on me as pixar does (the turn me into a weepy baby). 

I spend the middle part of my day in Sinjunku. It was what Tokyo is like in the movies. Loud, busy, colorful and completely overwhelming. I played a few arcade games and went into an awesome toy store. I spent the rest of my afternoon and night hanging around the temple that is by the hostel. It has a ton of shops and restaurants around it, I should have gone and checked it out last night. I found the public bath that Lonely Planet mentions, but was scared I'd screw it up and chickened out (I assume you get naked and sit in hot water with a bunch of strangers, but if I'm wrong it could be pretty embarrassing). I am gonna talk to the people that run the hostel about proper etiquette in the morning so I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.