Tokyo - day 17

This morning we watched some episodes of "Family Guy" while having breakfast and waiting for some English backpackers who we were gonna go to Harajuku with. We took the metro to Omotesando, a long shopping road with shops like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Gucci. Prada, etc. We went into Oriental Bazaar, a shop where you can buy lots of japanese souvenirs, from chopsticks to kimonos. We also went into Kiddy Land, a 6-floor toy store where you can find lots of fun toys and entire sections dedicated to Barbie, Hello Kitty and Snoopy. It also has some very funny and useless toys, such as the humping dog usb stick! We had a quick lunch at Lotteria (nothing to do with the lottery...) with Ed and then walked to Yoyogi park. The area around Harajuku and Yoyogi park is famous for the rockers that get together every sunday; they dress up like Elvis Presley and the characters in Grease. Unfortunately, it was raining a lot, so we didn't get to see much of that. We did go into the park to see the Meiji Shrine and then walked back to Harajuku. We walked through a little road where some traditional mini-parade was going on with men and women carrying a tiny shrine up and down a street, wearing shirts (no pants) that did not quite cover their bare asses and therefore showed their sumo-like thongs... The street was filled with little gothic type shops, best compared to Camden Town in London. We saw some very strangely dressed people in that street! We went to the Rock 'n Roll Museum, which turned out not to be a museum, but rather a shop specialised in Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. The owner looked like a japanese version of Elvis Presley, he even had the same haircut!! From there we walked back to Omotesando and went into the Louis Vuitton store, the Loveless store (pretty amazing cause it looks like a cave) and saw the Prada store (impressive building). Then we went back to our hostel to stay out of the rain for a while.

Weather: lots and lots of rain...