Day 17 & 18 of 18 – Harajuku & Akihabara

Sorry for not updating the blog sooner, I stopped posting the last bit because of the Tsunami incident in Japan in March. One thing lead to another and I completely forgotten. My Apology.

Planned Itinerary
- Harajuku (Meji Shrine) in the morning, shopping at Harajuku
- Akihabara

For a change, we decided to have MacDonald for breakfast, I highly recommend McPork and their ebi burger.

One thing about us and Harajuku, in particularly Meji Shrine. For 2 visits in a row (2009 & 2010), it rained on us AGAIN. We have been in Japan for the last 16 days and not once did it rain. My last trip there was the same and we skip Meji Shrine. However, I was determine to visit the Shrine even under the rain ^#%@^#.

Visitors queuing up at the water hole.

Inner corridor

Remember the NTT Docomo building in one of our photo in Shinjuku on the right? Looks close to Shinjuku.

Another entrance into Meji Shrine.

Even during raining days, the shrine is packed with devotees

We even witness a wedding ceremony, but the rain was the downer.

Attendees in the inner court for the ceremony

The head priest?

Me with the Torii in the background

Jin’s turn

After Meji shrine, we walk to Harajuku’s Takeshita Street

The famous Harajuku crepe

Moi’s favorite, chocolate and banana

Jin chose strawberry

After a short walk and exploration and with me waiting in starbucks as the gals did some shopping in HMV, we left for Akihabara for my kind of shopping and lunch. At (6th or 7th floor) in akihabara yodobashi building, you will find plenty of restaurant to fill your stomach/s. We chose to have Tokatsu.

Jin & Me pounding the sesame seeds for the sauce

Jin order the regular set with just Tonkatsu

Mine was the mixed platter, notice the round things with a bell sign at the left? That is the bell to call for service, neat huh!!. In Japan, your meal comes with free flow of cabbage.

After lunch, I did my shopping… which only took like 2 hours and with our hands full (yes, including Jin’s ) we made our way back to the hotel for our final packing.

Our total damage for the last 17 days.

After that we went to the nearby ramen shop for dinner and supper.

The next day, we rose up early to do our final check, before we left for breakfast and spend our loose change on some gashapon, we thought those toys would make nice gifts… but those machines were not as cheap as we thought, priced from 100 to 400yen (depending on the gashapon, of course)

With this, I end our last entry for our trip made in 2010 (My apology again).

To the Japanese people, we hope everything goes back to normal.
Our thoughts, compassion and sympathy are with all Japanese
It is painful to see the stuff which happened in Japan, we hope for your best and never never give up.

Sayonara!!!!!

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