Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tokyo: day 1

This was the first time I took pictures of a toilet. The novelty aspect was soon gone, though, because these are everywhere.

Halfway through our sushi meal, there's still plenty of tuna left (on the right) and some weirder stuff, including sea urchin (far right.)

Even though the market was closed, this guy was still working on a tuna head.

You can never get thirsty in Japan, with so many vending machines all over the place, selling everything from energy drinks and beer to café au lait.

Our first gothic lolita spotting. I don't think she knew she was being followed.

Shinto shrines are easily identified by their torii gates, like this one, only usually they're red and not this big. This one marks the entrace to Meiji-jingû, a temple in honor of the first emperor of the Meiji era.

This second torii gate marks the entrance to the main courtyard of the shrine

The main gate of Meiji-Jingû, seen from the altar

The entrance to crowded Takeshita-dôri

Gothic Lolita outfits for sale at Takeshita-dôri.

The Japanese love to use plastic food as menus, but I had never seen plastic crepes before. For some reason they were very popular in Harajuku, but we didn't see them anywhere else.

One of many gothic lolitas stores inside the trendy Laforet department store

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Gostei muito das gothic lolitas, não conhecia, mas o chuveirinho no rabito, na segunda imagem do sanitário, tem mesmo piada!!! LOOOOL!