shinjuku
22.08.04
Posted by Jun
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shinjuku
雑誌OK FREDのパーティーがあったのでICCへ出かけてきました。久しぶりの新宿。むかし新宿の学校に通っていたので懐かしい(産まれたのも新宿です)けれど、なんだか落ち着かない場所なのです。特に駅周辺はあんなに沢山の人がいるのに孤独な感じです。
There was a OK FRED magazine party at ICC in Shinjuku. I used to study (and I was born) in Shinjuku, so I feel a little bit nostalgic about this area. But I never feel comfortable being in Shinjuku. There are always too many people everywhere but I find Shinjuku (around station area) is kind of a lonely place. I don't know why.


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パーティー後、5年ぶりに思い出横町で飲みました。ちょっと雰囲気が変わった(昔よりキレイ)かなぁと思ったら99年11月に大火事があったんですね。でも面影を残したまま再建されて良かった。そう言えば昔、金券ショップなどがあったのを突然思いだしました。通称のしょんべん横町という名は、思い出横町に公衆トイレがなかった時代に付けられてしまったらしいです。「しょんべん、しょんべん」と言っていたら、お店のお姉さんに「それは昔の名前だから!」と言われてしまいました。失礼しました。ちなみにこのお店、客は2人からだそうです。1人じゃダメなのはナゼなんでしょう。

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After the party, we went to Omoide Yokocho ('Memory Alley') to have a drink. I felt like something had changed since the last time I went there, five years ago. Cleaner maybe? I found out that there was a big fire in Nov 1999. Now I remember that there was a discount ticket shop on the alley. It looked like this just after the fire. The alley didn't have any toilet for a long time and Omoide Yokocho was nicknamed Shonben Yokocho ('Piss Alley'). There is a public bathroom now, but I don't know how clean it is! When I was repeating the word 'piss', the lady who worked at the bar told me 'that is an old name!' Sorry! I overheard that this shop's minimum guest number is two. I wonder why we can't go there on our own?


Comments:
Jean wrote:
It was funny seeing you there. On the second floor, where we were sitting, there was an improv group sitting next to us, from Hokkaido, and they were singing all sorts of songs. All the waitresses were Chinese, and Yuko (my wife) kept ording things in Chinese. I want to go again.

Jun wrote:
It was nice meeting you at OK FRED, and a funny coincident at Omoide Yokocho! The ground floor was quiet and nice. I'm glad that I didn't need to hear their songs!

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