So we started out early again this morning. It seems like every morning we've woken up around 7 or 8am depending what we do the night before. We decided to check out Harajuku today. This was a Monday which we knew it wouldn't have been as exciting as a Sunday because that's when all the girls dress up in their crazy outfits and fix their hair like what we believe a Harajuku girl would look like.
Anyways, so we started out early, not too early but it was around 9am when we entered Shinjuku Station and made our way to the Menji-Jingumae 'Harajuku' Station. When we exited, all we saw were a line of stores along the street. We were glad to see this because majority of the time, all we've seen were department stores. The only downside is that the stores were still closed because it was early and most places opened at 10 or 11am. So we decided to walk down the street a bit to see what else was around and we walked all the way to Shibuya which we checked out the night before. We were feeling a little hungry because we didn't get a chance to grab breakfast in Shinjuku so we decided to just eat in the Shibuya area while waiting for the stores to open in Harajuku. We picked a ramen noodle restaurant. The waitress gave us an English menu so we could order and we each ordered a bowl of ramen. Ray had a spicy one and I had regular (I hope by now people reading this know that there's 2 people blogging to avoid the confusion haha). I thought it was good but Ray didn't really enjoy it because it didn't have a lot of meat in it. It basically had cabbage, beansprouts and bacon. I don't know if Ray mentioned this in any of the other blogs or if I have, but I swear they cook everything with bacon. The first soup I had in Tokyo was just broth with boiled bacon. I ate rice the next day and the only meat in it was bacon. There are photos of grilled bacon / thicker pieces of this meat all over Tokyo. Those who know me especially my close friends know that I am not a fan of pork so eating this made me a little sick. Anyhow, I felt that the ramen was good in terms of the noodle itself and I was glad I was finally eating VEGETABLES because everything I've had so far was just meat and rice, but the flavour just wasn't there.
We made our way down Shibuya and stopped at Uniqlo, which is a pretty popular place in Tokyo in terms of clothing store. There's one in every department store and we've seen quite a few on the streets. It's basically a mix of H&M and American Apparel to me. I already bought a few things from there but decided to stop there to get some gifts. After Uniqlo it was time to go back to Harajuku so we walked back the other direction. We stopped at many shops along the way back and came across the UT store which is basically a Uniqlo that sold the same items but also some limited edition items you could say. They had a whole wall of shirts in little containers which we thought were pretty cool. The shirts were designed by different artists and various popular anime series. We continued our way in the Harajuku area and to keep things to a minimum, we saw stores such at Kitson, Forever 21, H&M, Zara, Topshop, Edwin Jeans etc. We also came across a wicked looking mall called Ometsando Hills which had a very unique structure to it. The floors are all on a 25 degree angle and lead upwards in a rectangular shape. I wish I had photos to show you guys what I mean but we forgot our usb cable for the camera. This mall was one of those high end brand malls that had stores such as Vivienne Westwood, Galliano, D&G etc. It was a "Holt Renfrew" in a mall basically.
After Ometsando Hills, we stopped at Kiddyland which was a huge toy store with everything you could imagine. A whole floor each dedicated to Lego, Snoopy, Anime etc. For some reason, Toy Story seems to be very popular there as well. There was nothing left in Kiddyland so we made our way to the flea market in Harajuku which was similar to all the other outdoor markets we've been to but nothing that quite caught our eye. Of course it was another hot and scorching day, so we left Harajuku and went back to Shinjuku. After a bit of rest at the hotel we went out to Shinjuku again to the Red Light District which will mention about later. We came across two models doing a photoshoot which was wicked.
Alrighty, Day 6 coming up.
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