COLUMN // DC IN JAPAN #4

DC in Japan

update 4

Hello again. Just wanted to get in touch with another update on the DC team trip to Japan. We've officially hung up our snowboard boots for the trip and rolled down the street to Tokyo. It's a nice little town, but fairly busy on the sidewalks.There is some serious pedestrian etiquette so if you cross flow on the stairs or stop short on someone, you might be punished with an umbrella to the eyeball. We're learning.

by Eric Greene

This is where some shit went down. Real talk. There is some video footage that will drop this fall and some professional Colin Adair photos that can purchased as prints of all sizes at colinadair.com, but I snuck this little shot behind the backs of everyone else while they were telling each other to start hiking. Everyone in the crew wants to keep this spot secret so it doesn't get blown out, so don't show this photo to anyone else. I don't want the other dudes to be pissed at me for leaking shots.

Celebrity sighting! Tokyo is a pretty big place. Like, big enough that if you try to cruise around town looking for someone specific, you probably won't find them. We took the train to Shibuya and when we walked out into the street we bumped into Big Mountain Jeremy Jones. It went down like this:

Mike: What the fuck? There's a dude with a snowboard over there.

Jody: Whoa! And there's a guy filming him in the street.

Mike: It's a Jones Snowboard. Dude, that's Jeremy Jones!

Me: No fucking way that's Jeremy Jones. Where are we anyway? Holy shit, it is Jeremy Jones!

And there he was. Just chilling in the Shibuya intersection. It was the coolest shit that has happened on this trip and the biggest fan-out I've ever pulled.

photo by Adair

White people are funny. We met a British dude last night who has been living here for five years. We chatted with him at a restaurant and I asked if he had any suggestions about where we should go with the intent of getting some cool photos. He then spent 20 minutes drawing us a map and a list of the must-dos of Tokyo. Basically, all his advice was directed towards scoring drugs and getting hookers. Is this what the average foreigner seeks out in Tokyo? If so, that is so sad that it's hilarious. And this is one of the best maps anyone has ever drawn for me.
 

Maybe we stopped into a karaoke hotel for just a minute or two. And maybe we bought some face masks to avoid catching bronchitis. Maybe a glass or two was broken by accident, and maybe a bicycle or two was borrowed for a late night cruise. Maybe some shirts came off, and maybe a young french man puked the bed. Maybe.

POW DAY!!!

Goro Komatsu took us out to a rad dinner at a true local spot. There was some chicken sashimi available, as well as cow tongue. It was real.