11 Months in Tokyo for anyone is an adventure... Let me share mine with you ^^

Monday, September 19, 2005

Harajuku is where it's at

If you're Gwen Stefani and have tons of money!!! Yeah, so today Sarah and I went to Harajuku (You know the place Gwen Stefani always sings about but can't seem to pronounce right? Yeah that's the place...). There we met our friend Yuka (The girl who picked me up from the airport with Butsurin). We took a little walk and since I was feeling a little homesick that way, we made our way to the American embassy...... McDonalds. YESS!!!

Now, I had a bad experience with the embassy in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, AND France... it just didn't taste right.. Something was horribly wrong... Japan just couldn't AFFORD to let me down... And it didn't. It was the greasiest, most delicious replica of what an American double cheeseburger should be. Happy I was, gassy I was... (Yoda-speak YESS!)

Anyway, after barely being able to finish my gas infested meal, we decided to go window shopping. But that was not before I needed to use the potty... and there it was.. the first time I had ever seen a crazily high tech Japanese toilet. I'm SOOO SORRY I did not take a picture of it, because I did not think of it at the time, but I will try to sell you a high tech toilet by describing all of its wonderful features.

~~Step right up!! Here we have a wonderful toilet with bedet, a butt cheek washer, heated toilet seat (which was really weird because when I sat down, it felt like someone had sat down on the toilet seat for a long time before me... I dunno.. it was kinda disturbing.. ha ha ha), three musical options... 1)Beethoven's Fur Elise while you pee, 2)Flushing song (which was basically just the sound of a toilet flushing over and over so that you could poop discreetly), ha ha ha and 3)Fountain song (which is the sound of some water running.. which I am guessing is used to get you to pee if you can't already.. lol). All in all.. this toilet is a the 8th wonder of the world.. why not have one in your very own bathroom?!?!!?

Soooo.. do you wanna buy one? ha ha ha No? Alright.. maybe some other time then.

Hokay, so then we went window shopping. I'm telling you right now that it took every ounce of self control for me to not send myself to the poor house. There were soooooo many cute clothes, shoes, accesories, etc.... My favorite was this pair of earings that said "Starfucks Coffee" instead of starbucks... And the logo was a skull with long wavy hair... YESSS!!

Then Yuka just took us on a walking tour through Harajuku which eventually turns into Shibuya.. Shibuya is definitely turning out to be one of my favorite places to hang out. I swear to you, the people-watching you can do here is amazing. I am totally entertained just sitting in one place for a few hours just watching the people go by. It's amazing.

Here are some pictures that I took from our trip through Harajuku and such... Note: I'm trying to be a lil artsy fartsy with my pics. lol.. So if I have crazy angles that make you think "What the hell is she doing?" just don't laugh at me ok? Thanks bye~~

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