南口..... ない

Meet Hachiko,

Woof.

Hachiko was a dog.

A special little shiba inu that belonged to a Tokyo University professor named Eisaburo Ueno in the 1920’s and during his owner's life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when suddenly Professor Ueno did not return. The truth was the professor had suffered a sudden cerebral haemorrhage and sadly passed away, never to return to the train station where Hachikō was waiting so loyally. However, each day for the next nine years Hachikō awaited Ueno's return, appearing precisely when the train his owed should be aboard was due to arrive at the station. 

Sadly in 1935 Hachiko too passed away, but in remembrance of his loyalty that touched the hearts of so many, a statue of him was erected outside the exit of Shibuya station where he used to wait so faithfully every day. This statue has now become a world famous meeting point where people wait for their friends to arrive off the many trains that pas through Shibuya station every day.






Now, considering this massively interesting and would famous specified 'meeting' 'point' exists (I italicise there just to reeeaaally highlight the definition of these words.), you may be shocked to hear anybody would request to meet up in one of the other million places elsewhere around the station. Yet this is exactly what some of my friends did.


'hey we are going for some drinks, meet at Shibuya station south exit' they said....... not a problem until you realise this: 

Is Shibuya!

It's hustling, it's bustling, and theres no chance of finding anybody there in any time less than a millennia 2 millennia 2 millennia and a half. Despite this, I powered through like a trooper and continued with the odd location meeting plan, hoping to casually happen upon the south exit. However, after doing a full loop and a half of the (very large and grubby) station, traversing 2 overpasses and bobbling my way through a hobo city but still not finding the now-presumed-fabled 'south exit'. I came to the realisation that seeing as the exit was mythical, nobody else would be able to find it either.


This being said... I had no way to contact anybody. 

For a normal person, this would have been the end. They would have broken down crying hysterically, started talking in tongues, acting like a chicken etc.... BUT being the proactive and highly resourceful human I am, I had this in the bag. All i need to do was wander about the streets of Tokyo until I found a sneaky unguarded wifi!!!

accurate representation of my wifi search.

FINALLY, my efforts paid off and down a random street I located a sufficiently unprotected wifi to access my Facebook!! Through the use of this amazing, cutting edge technology we managed to rearrange the meeting place to where it should have been to start with... the aforementioned doggy related world famous meeting spot. And all was well in the world!!

Lets ask the pro of punctual meetings about this almost disaster...what do you think about these shenanigans Hachiko??