Today we went to the super fun kitchen utensil street Kappabashi dori, Temple quarter Asakusa, and otaku (nerd) paradise Akibahara. A really long day that was very satisfying, even though Tokyo is really hot and humid.
OK, this is rather uninteresting but...this is me *not* using my brain when wanting to have a foto on my telephone of the kitchen utensil shopping street Kappabashi dori.
And this is when I use it (a little more).
Tokyo Skytower in the distance
Even Japan has rundown houses.
Nice restaurant in Ueno Park
The National Museum
National museum again
Just hanging out...
A store solely dealing in restaurant/shop signs
Plastic food
and more plastic food. But it IS really nice to know what you are ordering in a land where you sometimes cant read the menus.
I mean, really! Just 390 yen (26 SEK/5 USD) for a delicious menu that I would have no problem paying twice, even thrice, in Sweden.
Eh? Big toe night stretcher?
Big apartment buildings next to midget houses. I just love that about Tokyo.
Here we come, Asakusa! Tokyo's oldest temple and a really nice kind of tourist trap (actually said without any irony, which is unusual for me).
Nice prices, was our thought, even if we didn't buy any of these.
Plastic versions. Malin was like, nah no one wants these, but I am quite sure those striped heel ones would go just right at certain parties? Sci-Fi meets Japanese culture. ^_^
Lucky charm lottery.
Shake and get your stick with a number.
Open the corresponding drawer and get your divination
Kawaii ne!
Koukeshi wooden dolls, really nice, for 1500 - 4000 yen (100-270 SEK/25-70 USD)
My sister mustered up the courage (she already had it, from the start to be honest...) and photographed these pretty girls in yukata.
And then, we went to Akibahara, and down the street we strolled into a release party for some kind computer game. Lots of free extras, like water bottle, light sticks, and some kind of veteran rock singer singing for all his worth (no photos allowed, so he may actually have been someone semi famous...)
Well, not *every* Japanese can love his work 24-7, hehe. But that's OK. 大丈夫!
Mer bilder från releasepartyt.
So cute. And short! The people inside must be sweating as hell, though.
I had decided beforehand, after watching several japanese tv-series about otakus and Tokyo, that I wanted one of these classic anime/manga miniatures. And they weren't actually that expensive as one could believe. So now I am one of those grown men with dolls, haha! But I don't care they were really nice (and still rather restrained, not ones with giant b**bs) and will look very nice on my desk.
And then a short visit at Super Potato, the retro video game store. A must for us who played video games in the 80s and 90s.
The entrance isn't super easy to find even if you have Google Maps.
And what better way to end the evening than with a (I believe) jpop singing girl at the subway station, probably dreaming to be the new Kyary or a member of AKB48 or similar. She did pretty good, listen here:
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