NOTE: I know these are really really late! But They seemed to be sitting in my Drafts pages for awhile Catch up blog post soon! xT
So, After an adventurous two days straight, we took the time to rest on Wednesday and to explore West Tokyo on foot to search for information about a Trip to Fuji.
We slept in til quite late… It would have been around 11am and watched The Simpsons and also Japanese MTV – as was our daily ritual. We had memorised all the advertisements for Shibuhara Girls- a Gossip Girl-esque type of show on MTV – which looks totally AWESOME!
We decided to venture into West Tokyo to visit the Tourist Centre in the business district… It was so much fun trekking and walking about, sort of wondering around a bit lost! But seeing the business side with their big tall buildings, women in bikes wearing heels zipping along the path
LUSH is something I LOVE and I managed to find a few on our walk about trip! There was one in the station (Lush Mini), and one on the street at Shinjuku. Once again just follow the smell and you’re there!
We visited a massive shopping mall, the Isetan in Shinjuku it was huge! And lots of shopping, what is great about Japanese shopping is that everything is different, the style differs from shop to shop. Also the layout of the shops is continuous, it’s not necessarily a store front where you walk in through doors, but more everything is connected and one shop merges into another and they share the same space.
And what trip to Japan would it be without a visit to the Pachinko slots and dream / sticker photos? It was hilarious as we had no idea what we were doing or where we had to stand to take photos. The only previous experience I had was in Morning Glory Chinatown back in Sydney. Thank God this was the same sort of format, where you take photos on one side, then edit them in another booth.
We mistakenly went into the editing side first and tried to put in our 400 yen until two young girls came up to us waving at us to stop as they were waiting for photos to print. No idea what the hell was going on!
In the end we got it working and the product sits in my wallet



