Shibuya, Akihabara, Chineese and mentalness
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Sinbuya Crossing
So we are here! We made it. I am typing on a mental keyboard that keeps giving me Kanji letters. And I am seriously lacking sleep. And we are climbing the mountain first thing tommorrow morning. And all tomorrow night. Also with no sleep. Crazy.
Anyway, what an awesome day. It is soo hot here and we have got lost loads figuring out the train and subway systems and visiting various bits of town. We are staying just down the road from Akihabara which is the electronics district so we visited an eight story department store there for lunch. I have really never seen so many gadgets all in one place and there were huge supermarket sized parts of the shop dedicated to individual product categories like camera lenses and HiFi equipment. Geek heaven as they like to call it and we will definately be back. Unfortunately we got lunch a little wrong and ended up eating chineese by mistake but it was still tasty.
We also went down to the neon part of town for some dinner after a much needed nap and a planning session. There is one famous pedestrian crossing that is ridiculously busy you have never seen anything like it. I got some great pictures and we ended up in an Irish bar which was mistake number two today in terms of soaking up the culture. But we will do better from now on I promisse!
