Friday
Today after class I went with Rachel to look around Shinjuku. We just decided to walk up and down the streets to see what would happen. First funny story of the day was we have been been seeing these signs for "Yen Shop" and have always been curious what it really is. We thought it might have been some sort of discount store. We found one of these Yen Shops in Shinjuku so we went over to find it. When we went down the stairs we found out the "Yen Shop" is just a real estate company. Typical Japan. Naming the company something that has nothing to do with the actual purpose.
After some more walking around we saw a this ku klux klan looking thing walking around with what looked like an imperial general from star wars. So of course we went looking around for a closer view. Then we saw that there were a line of about 8 stormtroopers with Darth Vader in the middle and people taking pictures of them. And since they were obviously Japanese people inside the suits, they were kind of short. I took some pictures and then some guy asked me if I could take a picture of him with Darth Vader. What he actually said was, "Excuse me, if I stand next to the Bat Knight will you use my camera?". When he stood next to Darth Vader he got this really serious look on his face. Good times.
We found this one huge store called "Tokyo Hands:Creative Life Store". And that is was. It had pretty much everything in that store. The first floor was halloween decorations and magic tricks and then the next floor was luggage and camping suplies, and it went on from there. One floor had "Crime Prevention Supplies" which we found out was just locks. Oh, on the halloween floor there was a costume of the swan princess and a white boy was posing on the front of it in this incredibly ridiculous look on his face. I wish we would have got a picture of it. I'm guessing his agent told him it would "only be in Japan".
After walking endlessly we parted ways and I went back to the dorm. I saw some of the guys at dinner and they said they wanted to go out but not go to the tokyo downtown. So I thought I would join because this we live in the equivalent of the Japanese suburbs. Not a lot of going out oppurtunities available. We took the train two stops away and walked around for a while until we figured out nothing was really happening in this part of town, obviously. So we got off at Sengawa and looked around for a bit but then decided to give up and walk back home. As we walked home we saw this sign for a cafe called "Tiny Cafe" and decided to drop in. Good idea. It looked exactly like a coffee house direct from westport in kansas city. The waitress/owner was pretty surprised that we were there but was really nice. So we ordered some drinks and sat around for a while enjoying it all. Than this reall outgoing japanese guy came in and started talking to us all and kept on saying we were "super cool". And than another guy came in and sat down with us and they started buying us all drinks. It was really funny. We ended up just hanging out with the locals until 12 or so. They told us to come back next friday, so we'll be back. And they invited us to one of the guys' band concert in Harajuku on christmas day. I won't be missing that.
After some more walking around we saw a this ku klux klan looking thing walking around with what looked like an imperial general from star wars. So of course we went looking around for a closer view. Then we saw that there were a line of about 8 stormtroopers with Darth Vader in the middle and people taking pictures of them. And since they were obviously Japanese people inside the suits, they were kind of short. I took some pictures and then some guy asked me if I could take a picture of him with Darth Vader. What he actually said was, "Excuse me, if I stand next to the Bat Knight will you use my camera?". When he stood next to Darth Vader he got this really serious look on his face. Good times.
We found this one huge store called "Tokyo Hands:Creative Life Store". And that is was. It had pretty much everything in that store. The first floor was halloween decorations and magic tricks and then the next floor was luggage and camping suplies, and it went on from there. One floor had "Crime Prevention Supplies" which we found out was just locks. Oh, on the halloween floor there was a costume of the swan princess and a white boy was posing on the front of it in this incredibly ridiculous look on his face. I wish we would have got a picture of it. I'm guessing his agent told him it would "only be in Japan".
After walking endlessly we parted ways and I went back to the dorm. I saw some of the guys at dinner and they said they wanted to go out but not go to the tokyo downtown. So I thought I would join because this we live in the equivalent of the Japanese suburbs. Not a lot of going out oppurtunities available. We took the train two stops away and walked around for a while until we figured out nothing was really happening in this part of town, obviously. So we got off at Sengawa and looked around for a bit but then decided to give up and walk back home. As we walked home we saw this sign for a cafe called "Tiny Cafe" and decided to drop in. Good idea. It looked exactly like a coffee house direct from westport in kansas city. The waitress/owner was pretty surprised that we were there but was really nice. So we ordered some drinks and sat around for a while enjoying it all. Than this reall outgoing japanese guy came in and started talking to us all and kept on saying we were "super cool". And than another guy came in and sat down with us and they started buying us all drinks. It was really funny. We ended up just hanging out with the locals until 12 or so. They told us to come back next friday, so we'll be back. And they invited us to one of the guys' band concert in Harajuku on christmas day. I won't be missing that.
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