Omg, what a day. Just got back from the concert and dead tired. Want to write a bit tonight though while everything is still in my mind.
Firstly, the day certainly did not go to plan. Me and one friend met Hatix and Maneayu at the Imperial Palace in the morning. Took a couple of attempts of asking caucasian people where they where from before I found out who I was looking for. It went something like...
"Hi, where are you from?"
"Belgium"
"AHS wouldn't mean anything to you would it?"
"Yeah"
"Then you must be Hatix"
"Yeah, the Ayu shirt didn't give it away?"
Anyway, we finally found each other and said hi. Have some chat while walking around the palace, though I'm not the best conservationist when first meeting someone. After the tour, we needed to split up, to go back to our hostel to pick up my second friend who was coming along to the concert. He laid in after a late night.
Unfortunately we didn't find him, he was already looking for us at the palace. So, after waiting a while, we left for the main Tokyo Station, to get the Shinkansen to Yokohama. Have to say, it was an excellent ride. The whole train is essentially business class, plenty of legroom even for us tall people.
Upon arriving at Shin-Yokohama, I was under the distinct impression that we needed to get the normal line train to Yokohama, which we did. After arriving there we soon realised that we were not in the right area as we could not locate the arena on the street maps. We headed back to the station and asked an attendant, with generous use of flashing the tickets to him. He said we need to catch a train to Shin-Yokohama, via platform 4. We just come from there
So, we headed back on a slow journey. After arriving back, we suddenly saw all the signs for Yokohama Arena. Doh! We hurried to the arena, it was now getting late and we was worried we wouldn't be able to buy concert goods.
Luckily when we arrived, our friend, Matt, had found his own way to the station. Funnily enough, he also went to Yokohama first as well
We found Hatix waiting patiently as well. I said we wouldn't be long but we had been much longer. Oops, sorry.
It was now roughly 4:45 - 5:00pm. We jumped in the queue for concert goods, and to our surprise, we got served within 15 mins and picked up all the goods we wanted. I picked up a towel, T-shirt, phone strap and night stick.
While waiting for the doors to open, we stood as a group of 4 waiting for Maneayu and others to appear. We held up our homemade AHS sign, shouted out AHS a few times as well
This seemed to get the attention of two ticket touts who approached us asking us if we had tickets. I think thats what they were saying anyway
The time come and we headed into the arena. Finding our seats was easy enough. I was surprised to see how close my B1 seat was to the front and the centre part. Even my friends C1 tickets were very close to the centre part. After seeing everyone else with a fan, I picked one up from the seller inside.
And so, the concert started. One word, WOW! If you are a fan of Ayu, you must try as hard as you can to get to see her live, there is nothing else like it. Glad I did pick up my fan, I was dancing/jumping/waving it around to the music. You can see Hatix's report for more details on the concert.
By the end, I was completely worn out, I had hardly eaten and my body was aching all over. Me, my two friends and Hatix meet up again and our first priority was food. Mcdonalds was the closest and fastest place to get food so thats where we headed. Felt better after that, even if it was a Mcdonalds,
never been so pleased to eat one.
We started to head back to where we where staying after, catching the Shinkansen back to main Tokyo station. Here we said our goodbyes and parted. Was nice to meet you
Written quite a bit here, not sure how, think I'm going to go and collapse on my bed now. Night!