Shibuya and the smallest bar ever...

Last night we visited Shibuya for dinner and some drinks. Those of you familiar with Lost In Translation might remember this as the place where Scarlett Johansen sits in the Starbucks watching the throngs go by. It is the busiest pedestrian intersection in the world, and even at 10pm there were thousands of people passing through or entering Shibuya to party.

We ended up having pizza, which was quite good and not ridiculously expensive. Then we walked around a bit until our friend Dan spotted what he said was a bar on the second floor of a very narrow building. We made our way up the (of course) very narrow staircase and found a bar that had a seating capacity of maybe 10 people max. We know this because when we added our posse of five to the five people already there, the place was about as full as it could get.

Have a look:
















The parts you cannot see you can assume to be walls. My room at the dorm is almost bigger than this place. It even had a kitchen.

The bartender and the rest of the crowd was very friendly to a bunch of gaijin, so we might make this our regular hangout in Shibuya. As we learn more Japanese (or any Japanese as the case might be) I think our welcome will grow. The bartender enjoyed talking to my friend Dan, the one in our group who already speaks Japanese fluently.