Saturday 31 March 2007

Op shops and electric town - Mon 31 Mar

Had delicious pork shoyu ramen for brunch near the hotel. Then we explored an op shop, and came across this very glamorous rack of second hand ski outfits :O

Walked to Akihabara, known as electric town. All this stuff has already been made, and is sitting there to be bought! Adult stuff is everywhere in Japan, in department stores, CD stores. Looked at cameras, mobile phones, headphones, and a furious, blinding, thunderous pachinko gambling room.

The model of mobile below has a screen that rotates sideways for internet browsing (shown) and widescreen TV (antenna shown).

Bert nicked off somewhere without letting me know where he was going, which was daunting - how do you find someone in Tokyo when neither of you know where you are or have mobile phones?? I managed to bump into him again after about half an hour, when I was nearly about to give up and go back to the hotel to wait.

We explored another Don Quixote discount department store and supermarket, this one HUGE. We went to a game centre and took some super fancy sticker photos - you can write all over them, and put decorations on them, on the screen, then they print out for you :) It was hilarious fun.

1 comment:

turkiyaki said...

The last sentence had overtones of "A good time was had by all" LOL! Love the ski suits. My stepmother would not hesitate to peruse that rack.