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So today I went to Akihabara and Harjuku.. How was it you ask?

Lets start with Akihabara. Akihabara is a mecca for electronics. It is referred to Electronics city. It was very neat, but also kind of just a tourist trap. Lots of advertisements for maid cafes, lots of electronics. But I couldn’t find the one thing I wanted, a region 0 portable dvd player. And my friend couldn’t find what he wanted either, 5 copies of windows xp. He could find 2 at most stores, but not 5.

We did though swing by an arcade and I was very impressed with the style of their arcardes. They are much more interactive and have cooler games. For instance, they have card based games where you lay your card on a table and it is read by the game and you battle other people at other stations. They also had a mech game that was really complicated.

After we left the arcade we found another akihabara shop.. The porn shop .. They had 6 floors of japanese movies, from anime porn to school girl to scat. It was fun to walk around with my friend and explore the porn stores and see if we could figure out what some of the “Devices” were for or what the movies were.

So we left akihabara and went to harajuku. We actually got off the train just north of harajuku and walked to the meiji shrine and through the park. This is when we discovered the music.. Ohh soo much music. It was alot of fun to walk around and see all the different bands. I made a video of the bands and added it to the end of this post.

We then went down the “Teenie Bopper” street where all the Harajuku Girls buy their outrageous outfits. We found a crepe store where I had a cheesecake, chocolate sauce, whip cream and bannana crepe.. That was soooo good. While trying to leave we got lost and bumped into a Marine.. Yes Gabe, there are Marines in Tokyo and the big black ones stick out .. So we started talking and me, marine dude, and cho went to have ramen together.

First some pictures:

And finally, the world premier of Harajuku, the good, the bad, and the wtf…