A Busy Day
I am so tired… I want to just drop dead and die, but here are some pictures. I think I walked about 6km in total today.
A fire engine just drove by. I wonder where it’s heading to. But anyway, read on for photos from Kaminarimon, Nakano Broadway, Shinjuku and nighttime Akihabara.
Asakusa
We went to Sensouji near Asakusa Station in the morning. I tried the omikuji. It took forever for a stick to fall out, but my fortune is apparently good.
Tourist traps
Spot the odd one out
Tsuruya-san’s family business
Ruined symmetry
Small boat town
Kanji
Paying for protection
Shake, pull and match
Roses are red, violets are blue. All my base are belong to you
They need to add a foliage-penetration mode on cameras
I want one
Nakano
Next stop, Nakano Broadway. I already covered this place in a previous entry so I shall save the explanations. More pictures!
Still in the mood for X’mas
Fraulein Revoltech Rei for 1485 yen
The only other picture I took inside Nakano Broadway
In the back alleys
Japanglish
Reminds me of FLCL
Shinjuku
I spent the afternoon alone wandering around Shinjuku. I walked around 4km. I bought a light novel called Bungaku Shoujo to Shinitagari no Piero (“文学少女”と死にたがりの道化). I have no idea what it is about, but I bought it anyway because I liked the little prose in the page before the prologue, and because it’s in some kind of “Top 10″ list so it has to be somewhat decent.
Pink flowers added just in case you miss the message
Outside the Shinjuku Station’s New South Exit
New South Exit
Shinjuku Station is about the size of a small city with exits that are hundreds of metres apart. It’s a hell load of walking.
I don’t know where this place is but whatever
Shinjuku Station serves a few dozen lines
Takashimaya used to be a cloth shop
One line
Two lines
Three lines
Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world with over 3.3 million passengers a day.
Compensation
Random building
Kinokuniya South Shinjuku Branch
My membership card doesn’t work here…
Walkway connecting Kinokuniya to Takashimaya
Kinokuniya is actually a grocery store in Japan!
Walking towards the Metropolitan Government Office (800m away)
Hey, is that…?
Bureaucratic zone
One of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s buildings
Taxpayer yen at work
Fuji News Network news truck
Push the button for audio signals
Akihabara
Finally, I met with Don777 in Akihabara. He’s a pretty nice guy, especially since he likes Maaya too. He brought me to @home cafe and Cafe with Cat (Toranoana’s new cafe). Cafe with Cat seems to be a pretty standard maid cafe deal except with cat-inspired uniforms instead of maid costumes, whereas @home is definitely on the manic side of things. The waitress who brought us our drinks actually did this heart-sign action to inject a “moé” flavour.
But I shall not go into that because I am falling asleep anytime now… A few more pictures and we are done.
Fortune Arterial is the latest game by August, the makers of Yoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na. Basically it’s the exact same game except the hair colours get shuffled around a bit and the Feena-lookalike is a loli. It’s also the most anticipated upcoming game according to Comptiq magazine, so expect it to sell a gazillion copies and be turned into a cabbage an anime.
Eva coffee
The second Kara no Kyoukai movie will be out on Saturday
Well, that’s it for today. I need sleep.
By the way, in case you didn’t know yet, all the photos (and more) can be found in my photo gallery.
