Going home from Tokyo one morning, got on the train heading back to my place (it was the middle of winter). The only trains running at the time I wanted to head home were the overnight trains that connected Tokyo with the ski slopes near Nagano, but since my station was the second stop (about 15 km away) I boarded the train as it's way cheaper than a Tokyo cab.
Eventually I was woken up by the conductor in the middle of the mountains some 250 km outside of Tokyo. The trains were delayed as there was some kind of snow storm going on, and I wound up finally getting home from my Friday night of drinking Saturday night at 7 o'clock.
All in all, Tokyo isn't the best place to get ridiculously drunk these days. There are a lot of bars who target people on wobbly legs, drag them in and set them up with a hostess and a bottle of champagne. The next month they get a mysterious charge on their credit card for about $300, and the cops here can do nothing about it.
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