We’ve been doing all sorts of things, but we both got colds and have been doing it all verrryy slowlllyy. So, the condensed version of our last two days: Went to Ikebukuro and spent half of the day there getting planned tattoos (me, not Chris). Went to a mall with used and new manga/anime/gashepon stuff (these pics are just of ONE of the gashepon stores, about 1/20th of the entire place). Completely overwhelming and geeky.
Went to Harajuku looking for the “fruits” girls who dress up in costumes and parade around. It was a bust! It was raining and there just weren’t many girls there. There were some, but not en mass. Boo hoo. All the swank fashion stores are there though: Chanel, Louis Vitton, D&G, etc.
We trekked out to Meguro to see the Parasite Museum. It was so “1960’s educational film” and none of it was translated into English. The pic shows an example of a 30 foot tapeworm found in some poor guy’s stomach. Although the museum appeared to be targeting public health issues, the audience was young hipsters looking for gross stuff (and the indifferent and unsupervised school kids which seem to infest all museums in Japan).
Oh and shrine, shrine, temple, shrine. And a parade.
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