Day 5

I woke up pretty early with the mission to revisit Akihabara and get a more relaxed look at all the stuff they have to offer. Sadly the Japanese stores only open at around 11 am so I went to Shibuya’s Starbucks again. I sat at the window again and after a few minutes I spilled my goddamn drink all over the place. That felt so embarrassing that I left immediately . Poor person who had to clean up after me.

It was still way too early to go to Akihabara so I just walked around Shibuya. I have no idea where I headed to but it took me a long time to find a train station. I’m glad I did that though because I came into rush hour without even wanting to and if you don’t know Japanese rush hour then let me tell you: it’s crazy.

 

Fugu

I skipped the first train because it looked too full, the next one was even fuller but I got in first so I didn’t have to press against others. Rather others pressed me in. Lucky for me, I was pressed against a rather good looking girl so I didn’t really mind.

Early afternoon we headed for Sunshine City which is a little underground “town”. Lots of shops and other stuff.

 

Way to Sunshine City

 

Neko-shrine

Sunshine City was okay, we had some terrible food but delicious ice cream and checked out the planetory. The planetory was great, it’s a cupola where a movie is projected on to. If you’ve ever been to Madam Tussaud’s in London then you know what I’m talking about.

They showed our star system and played some very beautiful Japanese songs while explaining all kind of stuff in Japanese – it was so beautiful and relaxing that I fell asleep several times, several times because I was forcing myself to stay up and enjoy that amazing view – but I didn’t manage too well.

After that we went to Roppongi to get some Hard Rock Cafe merchandise and have some drinks in their café. The waitresses in there spoke English and everything felt too western. Not very interessting if you ask me.

 

Hard Rock Cafe Tokyo

Trains on our way back to Shinjuku were full again – here’s a funny picture. I didn’t even notice the girl posing for it but it makes me smile .

 

Girl posing

Day 4

I didn’t really feel much like blogging the past days so here comes the late update.

The day before yesterday we went to Akihabara which is the electric/anime place in Tokyo. Tons of sounds and voices coming from everywhere and little girls dressed as maids advertising for their maiden café. It didn’t take me long to realise that this is my place here.

Akihabara

Maid!

Maid posing!

Stop drooling over the maids! Is what I should’ve done, instead I kept annoying the others about it, sorry guys . 

If you are into anime then Akihabara feels like heaven, there are several 7 story shops devoted to anime and manga and all the merchandises around that. One especially outstanding store is Comic Toranoana, they have two buildings next to eachother. One is for just manga/anime – and in 5 of those 7 floors you have to be over 18 to enter – and the other one is for figures and other collectable stuff.

Oh and on 2nd floor there’s also Witchcat – or With Cat. However you want to see it. It’s a maiden café where the girls are dressed as a mix of witches/catgirls. Needless to say that we went in and I drooled all over the place. Our waitress was very good looking and had one of those mean tsundere looks on but was actually very nice and polite. 

Sadly we weren’t allowed to take any pictures, or touch… so here’s just a picture of their outfit.

Maiden Outfit

We also went to Yodobashi-Akiba wich is one huge ass eletronic store. It’s pretty sick how much stuff they have over here. 

Here’s my bounty after one day of Akihabara hunting.

Haruhiiii

Day 3

Yesterday I started my day by getting some hot chocolate at Shibuya’s famous Starbucks. Quite expensive, yep, but I managed to get a seat at the window to observe the crossing. I don’t know about you but I could sit there all day long and watch people, lots of people cross there. I got a very calm feeling, beside my burning tounge (hot chocolate is hot) everything felt great. 

Take a look, it was rather calm that morning at around 9 am. 

The building where Starbucks is in is a huge store for entertainment, I’ve spent about an hour in there going through all the JPop, Animes and other Soundtracks until I realized that those are only for rental. I ended up buying a Toradora and a Haruhi soundtrack which were about 1200 Yen each.

 

Starbucks Building

Sorry about the flipped pictures, I don’t know why WordPress flips them around. When I watch them on my harddisk they’re normal flipped.

Late afternoon we went to Ginza which is compareable to 5th Avenue in NYC. And that’s in fact the very first feeling I had once I arrived there. Everything was super clean and everything looked super expensive.

Ginza

 

5th Avenue lookalike

We’ve spotted a pachinko place and went in to check some of the pros, I don’t know how they manage to be in the building for longer than 5 minutes because it’s louder than in a disco. Some have tons of little balls behind them so they’re probably in there all night long.

 

Pachinko

Since we couldn’t afford much in Ginza and the sun already set we decided to check out the Tokyo Tower which was close by. It’s the Japanese Eiffel tower, in fact it’s ever bigger than the original one but not quite as impressive in my opinion.

 

Tokyo Tower

Up there I managed to get some girls taking a picture of me, infact they offered it after I took two pictures for them they were kinda cute tihihi. There are alot of good looking girls in Tokyo, I’ll miss that view alot.

Full train is full

Tomorrow will be Akihabara time, you know what that means! Maiden cafés!