Work and a Swallow Tail butterfly

Headed to work today at 2:00 and finished around 8:00. After I got home I got a E-mail on my phone from Mike, a good friend that I met in 2005 at KCP. He studied at KCP for over a year and his Japanese is awesome. Anyhow he E-mailed me about a club that he invited me to earlier. At first I was just gonna take it easy and not go out but the club is only 7 minutes away from where I'm living.

Met up in Shinkiba with Mike, his cousin, and two other friends and we headed to the club. The place is called ageHa which means Swallow tail butterfly in Japanese. Ageha easily accommodates 3000 people and when we got there around 12:00 we waited in line for about 10 minutes before being able to enter. This line continued past 2:00 with people still pouring in. Ageha is one of the biggest clubs in the world and the biggest in Tokyo. It is definitely on the list of places that I'm taking my friends when they come to Japan.

After entering the club you enter a large area with a island bar in the center. There is music from the main arena playing and a projector . There are huge floral arrangements in glass vases which are in fish tanks with gold fish in them which just looks sweet. When you enter the arena it is awesome cause it's smoke free and it's huge! There is a huge disco ball in the center with a diameter over 5 feet. They have one of the nicest sound systems of any club in Tokyo and the speaker boxes themselves look awesome. Connected to that is a area outside where the ground is covered with sand and they have cool J-style torches. It gives the impression of a beach club or something, pretty cool. Next to that they have a area closer to the water with another bar and hammocks to hang out on. Up from there they have another DJ playing in a area with a Pool, swimming wasn't allowed but it really make for a cool atmosphere. There was a old guy there who had be to in his 70's and he was dancing all night, it was hilarious.

Around 2:30 a band called Studio Apartment started playing in the main arena so we headed back inside. They were awesome. They started with a pretty regular band with a lot of auxiliary percussion and a good female vocalist. After playing a couple songs a horn section joined them and the energy in the place just kept going up. A little later a 12 piece string section joined in and it was amazing. The concert was basically the release party for their new CD and it was great.

After that we mostly hung outside by the pool and watching the sunrise come up over the ocean was incredible. When it hit about 5:45 we headed out and headed home.