Food for thought
…is pretty much all that’s kept me going since I got here.
Shibuya crossing
I’m not made out for traveling alone, atleast not for this long. It’s a fucking fantastic experience, but next time I’m gonna bring someone that can take care of me, because I’m obviously not managing myself.
On the first day, with the other swedes, I had 4 pieces of sushi from a conveyor belt sushi-place. Really good sushi, absolutely fantastic. Since then I haven’t eaten anything. Just getting myself a few apples took 2 days. I still wasn’t hungry, I just figured I’d die if I kept not eating.
Last night I met up with a Japanese girl I had talked to before on the web and she showed me around shibuya though, and our first stop was a ramen-shop. We got some really nice ramen, and we looked around the famous 109 mall in Shibuya.
¥850 ramen
couldn't stand straight
We also headed off to “Hub – the English pub,” yeah, the English pub that plays Avril Lavigne as loud as a club. Still good times though. I got caught up in a drinking game with the table next to us in naming macdonalds items until someone (me) couldn’t think of another and then that person had to drink.
Hub also had what must be the smallest toilet I have ever been to.
All of a sudden you’re walking down the bustling streets of Shinjuku and you see this road where you supposed there was going to be another backstreet full of vending machines. It’s slightly surreal. It’s like you only have to look in that direction for all the noise from cars and the people yelling at the stores to just go away. Tranquility in madness.
Aahh~
The fashion around here is great. Loads of the guys look like host club members, but what’s great is the female fashion. Everyone wearing knee high socks and short skirts or tight jeans shorts. Some girls even have that teasing thing that holds the socks at the waist running up their leg.
I saw a few gothic lolitas in Shibuya too, but they seem to be a dying breed.
widdle kitty
Also: cats. There were probably a good 50 Japanese clustered around these things, taking pictures and making “kawaii~!” exclamations. To be fair, it was incredibly cute.
