SHIBUYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I fell out of the habit of writing my blog, probably because I kept falling asleep after school.  So I'll write a few entries to catch up. 



A few weeks ago I went to Shibuya, which is another fashion town for young adults and it's also popular with foreigners. 
I have a game called 'The World Ends With You', whose settings are based in shibuya therefore I knew were a few of the places were, not to mention that I came here 2 years ago so I didn't get lost (this time).   

 

This cross walk is the busiest cross work in the world where 10 000's of people cross every day.  This picture wasn't even peak hour.  They video bellow shows when it's the busiest.

On one side of the crossing is suspposedly the busiest Starbucks in the world (the sign is kind of hard to see from this angle)

Where I got a delicious 'Mocha Frappuccino', (there is always a green tea flavoured something here).

On the other side of the crossing is the 'Hachiko' statue.  The story of Hachiko is famous, it's about a dog that waited for his master for years even after he died, (There's even a movie about him). 

On the other side of the station is a Moai staue, according to to wikipedia it was given to Tokyo in the 80's as a pressant for being the capital for a 100 year, the previous being Kyoto. 

The next place I went to was the 109 building 'ichi maru kyu' in Japanese.  It has about 9 floors packed full of women's clothing stores.   Most of the things there were targeted towards people in their 20-30's.  I just walked around and looked at the stores since everything was really expensive.

Besides 109, there were lots of shopping malls and high fashion shops everywhere. 

My teacher told me that there are 4 levels of fashion.  The first is Harajuku (my favourite) which is for high schoolers, the next is Shibuya (20's), after that is Omotesando (30's+) and the last is Ginza which is for rich people who love brand named items.

The next place I went to was 'Tower Records' a famous music store with all types of music.  There I bought some Japanese music (mostly music I heard in movies and TV shows).  Unfortunatuly every music store I've been to has expensive CD's.

I didn't go anywhere else after that since 1. I spent too much money and 2. I was starting to get heat stroke from staying out in the sun too much.  Here's another picture from outside the train station.

Now that I think about it I did pretty good this time.  Last time (2 years ago) my friends and I ended up getting lost in the shady, love hotel area.