Surviving Lamageddon - Sayonara Tokyo!

Today we get on the bullet train and head for Nagoya, leaving Tokyo behind us forever. And without even a glimmer of disruption to our essential services.

Yesterday we went to Harajuku. On a Sunday morning it is the mecca for the coolest kids in Tokyo to cosplay, hang our and generally be all round awesome. Unfortunately there was some massive event in a park near the station, there were 1000s of people gathering around and lining up to get in, but we couldn`t figure out what it was. We`re thinking perhaps a benefit concert.... So all the cool kids were no where to be seen. What we did find however, is the coolest shops in the history of shops that are cool. Basically think of all your costumery, gothic, lolita, dragqueen, cosplay essentials all in the one street only 200 metres long. It was mind blowing. Jazzy had to drag me out by the ear. Of course they are all designed for minute hot asian women so we were unable to buy, (no amount of tailoring was going to turn that mirror ball corset top into something either of us could wear) but we have come away with some awesome ideas.

We then went back to Ueno. In just 4 days the Cherry Blossoms have completly come out. We had our first Sakura picnic! By the time we get to Kyoto it should be raining Cherry Blossoms and by the time we leave Japan they will all be gone :( Their magic is in their fleeting beauty.

And then back to Akihabara (electirc town). I don`t think it`s a coincidence that all the electronics stores are coupled with the maid cafes and ginormous sex stores. And manga manga everywhere. And not of the innocent cutesie kind either. One place we went to had an ENTIRE floor dedicated to manga porn. It`s just normal reading here. People read it on the train like you would a New Idea magazine. Full on.

So off we go to Nagoya!!