We started the Sunday morning off by visiting Shibuya with plans to head to Harajuku afterwards. It was a shopping filled day for us and I couldn’t be happier. The clothes in Tokyo are amazing! Here is the famous Shibuya Crossing, it’s one of the busiest intersections in the world!
This is a statue of the dog ‘Hachiko’. It’s a popular meeting spot and there were many people taking pictures of the statue. There’s a great story about this dog you should really read here on this wiki page.
They even made a movie based on it and it stars Richard Gere!
Once we finished taking photos of the beloved Hachiko, we crossed the scrambling intersection. It was madness! There were so many people crossing at once, and then an ambulance came and needed to make it’s way through. The people just kept walking and stopped maybe 1 foot away from the ambulance. Crazy people! We also lost our dear friend Claire during the process of crossing. Here she is on the otherside of the road. It was the only time we got separated during our trip! haha.
We weren’t sure where to go after the excitement of crossing the road, but we were all drawn into this one building after seeing all this sparkly Hello Kitty stuff! This is where you’d go if you wanted to ‘bling’ any of your belongings.. Hello Kitty style of course.
Walking to our lunch destination…. (after asking for directions!)
MOS Burger!!! We had to try their famous burgers while we there.
We all tried their Rice Burgers. Claire and I had the one with beef inside while Cass got the seafood one! mmm
A close up shot. Instead of using buns, they used rice patties! It was amazing! So tasty. Auhhh I am drooling just looking at this picture.
Went to shop some more after lunch.
A mascot handing out flyers! I can’t even read the flyers but I took one anyways because the mascot was so cute haha. In Tokyo there are lots of people all over the place who hand out flyers promoting different businesses. Sometimes they even hand out tissue packets too, and once we got oil-blotting sheets!
Ads at the train station. I liked the juxtaposition between pretty cartoon girl and the pretty model.
Harajuku! Here is the view of Takeshita Dori from the Harajuku train station exit! It was pretty crowded! yikes
We saw this cute looking store and went to check it out. They were selling donuts on the side.
Turns out it was a Tamagotchi store!! I didn’t know that until I saw these toys at the back of the store and I snuck a picture of them. They looked really cool because they had color screens. I would’ve got one but it cost almost 6000 yen! (approx. $65 US)
Walking down Takeshita Dori. We were there on a Sunday afternoon so we saw quite a few people dressed up in their goth, punk, cosplay, or lolita getups. I didn’t manage to get a picture of any of them unfortunately, but if you google Harajuku fashion, you’ll get the general idea! =P
Daiso! A popular chain of 100 yen shops. They sell lots of household items there. I love visiting the one in Vancouver!
While walking along the street I noticed a spot where you can take purikura photos! We couldn’t go to Japan and not take one of these pics so here’s ours! It’s me, Claire and Cassandra! *kawaii!!*ヾ(＾∇＾)♪
After our purikura photos, we came across the crepe stalls! These two stalls were right beside each other! I was excited to try some of the crepes from Harajuku. Both stalls looked good but we decided to go with the stall on the right, Marion Crepes.
MMMmm, they tasted as good as they looked! I got the one with strawberry icecream, whip cream, and bananas with strawberry sauce and sprinkles on top!
More of Takeshita Dori. Just realized the name of the street is pretty funny haha
A crazy looking costume shop in Harajuku! I ended up getting my costume for Halloween this year from Harajuku! Not from this store though, lol.
Elmo overload!
It was dark out when we were finished walking down Takeshita Dori. We ended up crossing the main road Meiji Dori and found out how much more there was to see in Harajuku! Unfortunately the shops would be closing soon so we didn’t have time to see all the shops we wanted to..
Ohhh Forever 21! ♥ Right next to it was H&M and further down the street was a TOPSHOP. Geeze so many good stores! We’d have to save these stores for another day because we were set on finding the Kiddy Land store before it closed!
Kiddy Land is an amazing toy store in Tokyo with 6 floors and filled with all sorts of Japanese character goods and toys! Each floor you’ll find something different, it was a lot of fun to explore. There’s a floor for just Hello Kitty stuff! As big a fan of Hello Kitty I am, I wasn’t too excited to see all that Hello Kitty stuff while I was in Japan, there was just so much of it that it sort of lost appeal for me! (I still love her though! Just in smaller amounts haha.) I found a new favorite character though, and her name is Korilakkuma aka. Relax Bear!
It came with a reversible ‘sleeping bag’ with polka dots on one side and soft pink fabric on the other. I love it!
Some other Rilakkuma goodies I got. A 2010 Calendar, stickers, and ear phones!
I also got a Mameshiba Edamame keychain! Check out a video I recorded of it below, complete with sound effects by yours truly haha!
Pooped from another long and exciting day. Our feet felt like they were being stabbed by a thousand pins and needles! Eeeek. I love ya Tokyo, but you’re killing our feet! haha.
Thanks so much for reading! Please leave me some awesome comments while you’re here! Coming up for the next post, DISNEYLAND!!
Wow, Tiffany. You pictures never ceases to amaze me. Shibuya seems like a nice place. Very busy and colourful. I enjoyed reading about your adventures. It’s funny how you guys lost your friend Claire while crossing the street. And your lunch looks so good. I’m attracted to the green drink. And I can’t believe there’s a Forever 21 in Shibuya!!! That’s too cool. Great post, Tiffany. Always enjoy looking at your pictures.