Thursday Haircuts

Today was a pretty busy day...I had 5 classes. 3 in the morning and finished it off with the 2 in the afternoon, to make for a pretty full day. But all in all it wasn't too bad. I guess there wasn't anything too terribly exciting that happened today. I had the 2A class twice today...why?

Well, because yesterday one of the classes was canceled because of the calligraphy class, so they made up for that missed class today in the afternoon. And normally they have a class in the morning on Thursdays, so lucky for them, they got English twice! Haha...exciting, right?

This weekend, I'm planning on going in to Tokyo to meet up with some friends tomorrow night and then my girlfriend on Saturday, so I'm excited for tomorrow to be over with! Originally I wanted to get a haircut up in Tokyo this weekend. But I'll be pretty busy this weekend and I wanted to get my hair cut soon, so I went and got it cut today after work.

Before going to a place, I looked online to try and find places to get my hair cut. It's not so easy to find a good place in the inaka...and even harder doing research on the internet in Japanese! Haha, so I did it the old fashioned way. At first, I tried to keep a few places in mind that I saw on Google Maps and checked them out. I drove up to a few places that I saw...but not to be discriminatory, I only saw really old people working in the shops.

So I decided not to go in! Haha, I know, it's horrible, but I'd rather have someone a little younger cut my hair who won't give me an old man haircut or something. Besides, most of the places closed at around 5:30pm...way too early! Considering it was already 5:15ish while I was driving around. So I continued to drive around and headed toward some places where I had seen barbershops before while driving around the city. I found this place along Route 128 which looked relatively new and pulled up.

They had a "menu" of their prices posted outside so I checked it out and it was a decent price. I also saw inside and there were younger guys working, so I decided to step in and give it a shot. I got in and told the guys how I wanted to get my hair cut and they got started right away. I had been to a more expensive place in Tokyo to get my hair cut, but this place seemed almost similar, but not quite as fancy. The place was really new (only about 1 1/2 years old) and the aura of it seemed pretty nice.

Well, about 45-50 minutes passed by and during that time my hair was cut, washed a couple times, and styled. In the end, I really liked the hair cut and the style. It was only about 2,900 Yen, which is pretty decent considering that the other places I saw were more expensive and had the "old" people!

Haha, well I guess when I'm stuck around the inaka and need a haircut, I know where to go!