when (april) fools' day attacks, japanese edition.

for some reason, today i remembered that on our trip to tokyo a while back, m and i spent a considerable amount of effort (relatively speaking, so take with token salt grain) wandering around ginza, actively looking for this massive godzilla statue. in our guide book, we had a picture like this to work from:

we're not sci-fi buffs, but thought it would be cool to take a pic by its feet claws or something. i mean, we are american. anyway, as we spent more time in ginza, we thought it was a little strange that the japanese would erect a giant monument to a monster in the middle of their posh shopping district, but we weren't judging. like i said, we are american.

so after walking around ALL DAY and not coming across any giant godzilla statues, we were about to give up and head back to the hotel. then we happened upon this on a random back street:

that's right. godzilla could literally be owned by a stuffed bear. because he is like 1.5 feet tall. the fucking pedestal doesn't count.

if there was ever a moment that we felt like stupid american tourists, that was probably it. i'm sure who ever erected that statue continues to delight in the sheer stupidity of all of the gullible americans seeking the godzilla monument in tokyo.

i mean, i would. well played.