Japan Trip 2008
Day Ten

Kamiyacho Station! Closest station to Tokyo Tower.

Breakfast at 7 eleven :]

Amazing selection of stuff to eat.

Pork, tuna, egg, ham and cheese, all sorts of sandwiches.
My favourite was the tuna and mayo ones.

Sandwiches not your thing? Noodles! There’s even complete salmon slices.

This was some sort of museum. NOA~ very cool.

Munching on these roasted glutinous riceballs dipped in sugar. Awesomes.

There is it, Tokyo Tower!

Which also happens to be, a Hello Morning spot! xD

Did you know the height of the Tower is 333m?
Since its opening in 1958, the Tokyo Tower has been the world’s
tallest self-supporting steel tower. The Eiffel Tower in Paris is 320m high.

It’s a mini shopping mall inside, complete with rows of souvenir shops. Tourist attraction x1.

The popular Tokyo Curry Lab! Not opened yet when we came in the morning.

We told ourselves to come back and try it later. This place was special.

Cause it was another Hello Morning spot~!

We reminded ourselves to come back and try it, but we didn’t.
Didn’t feel like a curry day. xD

5 floors of totally unrelated attractions.

In the elevator up to the tower. The the lady in the hat?
I think her ears are pressure proof already. Up and down all day!

The first viewing gallery. This is 150m up. There’s another one at 250m up.

You can find out more about the tower here.

It was really crowded on the 2nd floor, so we went downstairs.
Yes there’re 2 levels on the viewing gallery.

A lot less people on the 1st level.

Then we saw this. OMG!

Yeap. Another Hello Morning Spot~!

Scary.

View from the tower. Cloudy skies didn’t help the photo.
Imagine if it was the clear blue skies from Kyoto. argh.

There was even a Cafe here, Club 333.

This was on display at a live band stage set up beside the cafe.
50th anniversary poster of Tokyo Tower, signed Ayumi can?

Back down on ground level, this was like a fact room,
interesting “did you know” facts about the japanese yen.

Heh.

More face painters.

That was about it for Tokyo Tower.
We planned to come back at night to check out the 250m up viewing gallery.

I couldn’t help but laugh when i saw this poster in the subway.

People queuing up before the train arrives. We’re headed to Harajuku.

We’re back again! The last time we were here it was late at night and raining.

Takeshita street. 1x crowded.

Lots of well dressed people yesh.

Another stop in my mini hunt for Hello Project Shops. Nope didn’t get anything.

Majority of shops were for teens, selling all sorts of cute accessories.

We just walked straight through, nearly everything was for girls.

Like this one here.

Cosplay shop!

Oh yea. Fierce.

This shop was my backup plan in case the concert tickets didn’t arrive.

It sells idol goods and concert tickets.

And of course these photos again, concert loot.

Goth shop.

We were walking back to Ginza at this point. Wanted to find the Prada glass building.

Inside the Gap flagship outlet.

Omotesando Hills. A side avenue from Harajuku to Ginza.

So high end.

Lined with boutiques.

This was a street behind the main avenue. Another row of high end restaurants.

In case you have the $$ to shop here, alight at this station.

Upscale cafes, filled with ang mos.

Evil advertising trucks again.

After a substantial amount of walking, we FOUND IT! Prada building YA!
How cool is the entrance?!

Red corvette. No horse run.

Way cool. It must look spectacular at night.

Across the road, D&G building. Looked like a prision.

How often you see a Ford Mustang parked in a garage in Singapore? Never.

Once again we were walking around, without a map, guided by a rough sense of direction. xD

Cool bike.

Eventually we walked our way back to Shibuya. Again!

This time it wasn’t raining.

These 3 posed. lol.

We walked down the streets we didn’t cover the last time.

But we couldn’t cover them all. Check out the maze of streets.

Franc Franc on the right! I spent over S$200 here. Any designer that walks in will spend a LOT. Everything in there is just so designer cool. Bought diva curtains :)

Walked around a bit more before having dinner at the same place.

At this point the cloudy skies were clearing up. Blue skies again! YAY!

Headed back to Akihabara. Wilson was still looking for his neroid figurines.

There are only a few major go to shops. Like this one. AsoBitCity.

Things start to light up at night.

While Wilson was hunting for figurines, i was trying to find the AKB48 theatre.

AKB48 is another idol group, sort of like Morning Musume,
only with a very different target audience.

AKB “48″ means there are 48 members in the group.

No i didn’t get to watch. The whole place felt a bit sleezy. lol.

Because the lower floors they were selling these… costumes.

And bb guns which i so wanted to buy. See the Carbine on top? omg.

Life sized replicas of the real thing.

With such green colors and a name like “pop life department store”, you would think it’s a natural goods store or something.
But no, look at what it sells here. (NOT SAFE FOR WORK) xD

Yeap. That’s all for today!

Tommorrow we’re riding the Thunder Dolphin. woot.