We left at around 8:30-9:00. After busing to the Tsukuba Center, it took around 45 minutes to get to Akihabara via Tx (Tsukuba Express train). For those that don't know, Akihabara is a part of Tokyo famous for cheap electronics. It's also pretty appealing if you're into anime or games as that kind of stuff is everywhere. In the morning, we only checked out Yodobashi, which is a large store right outside the station, The primary reason we went is so some people could get phones, but I already had mine. I mainly just wanted to see how I'd fare getting around Tokyo. It wasn't too bad in my manual chair, but the ever-awesome Mike Cole helped me out quite a bit too.
I didn't take any pictures of the inside, but it's crazy in there. Biggest electronic shop I've ever seen/been in. Shortly after arriving, we went to eat at a Chinese place, but I wanna check out the sushi place up there as well.
My pictures usually suck, but you should be happy I'm remembering/caring to take them. LOL.
After lunch, we had plans to meet with people in Shibuya, so we headed there via the JR. It took maybe 30 minutes on that train.
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko |
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| Shibuya is famous for the story of this dog. |
I mostly take pictures when I'm bored/waiting and they're usually bad/not really intentional.
Shibuya was full of tall buildings and masses of people. Pretty sure all of Tokyo is like that.
Anyway, Mike needed his phone, so off we went to Softbank. But since Tokyo IS FUCKIN HUGE, we had no idea where to go. Mike ended up having to ask a police officer for directions, which was an awesome moment right out of a CC. When we got to Softbank, we found that they were out of prepaid phones. Also, the people who were supposed to meet us in Shibuya had apparently asked about us when they were there before, but we never ran into them for the rest of the day. We got directions to another Softbank, where I chilled for a couple hours with Olya and Jason. The others ran off somewhere. I took some pics there to kill time, but I already posted them elsewhere. I mean, how interesting is a phone store? Oh, they did have charging stations, so random people would come in, plug their dead phones in, and leave. That was interesting.
With the phone stuff dealt with, we decided to walk to Harajuku. The streets are lined with shops and super full of people all the time. Supposedly, the crepes are amazing, but despite the 20 minutes we spent admiring them, we decided to get other food instead (WHICH I REGRET WITH ALL MY HEART). There were also some interesting characters there, but I didn't take any pics. I really need to go back and spend money there, though.
After Harajuku, we returned to Akihabara and decided to meet my fellow Buckeye/Gilman Scholar Hannah, who's studying at ICU this year. We hung out there for a bit before leaving, but I feel like there's never enough time to do everything you wanna do there. Random Japanese people loved the Goomba shirt though.
I plan on going back to Tokyo more than a few times. Maybe I'll even take my scooter next time. It was a pretty good trip, though. I have a lot of really cool friends and I feel like this year is gonna be really fun!
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