A Busy Day
I am so tired… I want to just drop dead and die, but here are some pictures. I think I walked about 6km in total today.
A fire engine just drove by. I wonder where it’s heading to. But anyway, read on for photos from Kaminarimon, Nakano Broadway, Shinjuku and nighttime Akihabara.
Asakusa
We went to Sensouji near Asakusa Station in the morning. I tried the omikuji. It took forever for a stick to fall out, but my fortune is apparently good.
Tourist traps
Spot the odd one out
Tsuruya-san’s family business
Ruined symmetry
Small boat town
Kanji
Paying for protection
Shake, pull and match
Roses are red, violets are blue. All my base are belong to you
They need to add a foliage-penetration mode on cameras
I want one
Nakano
Next stop, Nakano Broadway. I already covered this place in a previous entry so I shall save the explanations. More pictures!
Still in the mood for X’mas
Fraulein Revoltech Rei for 1485 yen
The only other picture I took inside Nakano Broadway
In the back alleys
Japanglish
Reminds me of FLCL
Shinjuku
I spent the afternoon alone wandering around Shinjuku. I walked around 4km. I bought a light novel called Bungaku Shoujo to Shinitagari no Piero (“文学少女”と死にたがりの道化). I have no idea what it is about, but I bought it anyway because I liked the little prose in the page before the prologue, and because it’s in some kind of “Top 10″ list so it has to be somewhat decent.
Pink flowers added just in case you miss the message
Outside the Shinjuku Station’s New South Exit
New South Exit
Shinjuku Station is about the size of a small city with exits that are hundreds of metres apart. It’s a hell load of walking.
I don’t know where this place is but whatever
Shinjuku Station serves a few dozen lines
Takashimaya used to be a cloth shop
One line
Two lines
Three lines
Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world with over 3.3 million passengers a day.
Compensation
Random building
Kinokuniya South Shinjuku Branch
My membership card doesn’t work here…
Walkway connecting Kinokuniya to Takashimaya
Kinokuniya is actually a grocery store in Japan!
Walking towards the Metropolitan Government Office (800m away)
Hey, is that…?
Bureaucratic zone
One of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s buildings
Taxpayer yen at work
Fuji News Network news truck
Push the button for audio signals
Akihabara
Finally, I met with Don777 in Akihabara. He’s a pretty nice guy, especially since he likes Maaya too. He brought me to @home cafe and Cafe with Cat (Toranoana’s new cafe). Cafe with Cat seems to be a pretty standard maid cafe deal except with cat-inspired uniforms instead of maid costumes, whereas @home is definitely on the manic side of things. The waitress who brought us our drinks actually did this heart-sign action to inject a “moé” flavour.
But I shall not go into that because I am falling asleep anytime now… A few more pictures and we are done.
Fortune Arterial is the latest game by August, the makers of Yoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na. Basically it’s the exact same game except the hair colours get shuffled around a bit and the Feena-lookalike is a loli. It’s also the most anticipated upcoming game according to Comptiq magazine, so expect it to sell a gazillion copies and be turned into a cabbage an anime.
Eva coffee
The second Kara no Kyoukai movie will be out on Saturday
Well, that’s it for today. I need sleep.
By the way, in case you didn’t know yet, all the photos (and more) can be found in my photo gallery.
December 27th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Oh man, good memories…you rolled through some of my old stomping grounds!
Also, good point about the signs for the women only cars – there were several mornings where I stumbled into the station bleary-eyed and half-asleep and got into one of those lines by accident. One more than one occasion those pink flowers were key in helping jostle me out of my stupor long enough to realize that I should move if I didn’t want some major embarrassment. ;P
Great photos, too; I especially like these ones:
http://gallery.darkmirage.com/2007tokyo/day3/IMG_5845.jpg.php
http://gallery.darkmirage.com/2007tokyo/day3/IMG_5844.jpg.php
ああ、行きたい～
December 27th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Get me a can or two of eva coffee will you? I’ll drink a plain UCC one while waiting for your Comiket updates…
December 27th, 2007 at 6:07 am
I was at Sensoji yesterday morning too!! And I think I did see you guys? Was any of you wearing a Nirvana jacket with hood (I think it was Nirvana) with a blue/white muffler?? I’m just guessing here so not sure who is who, but I get the vibes of fellow SGers when walking past them (grp of 4, 3 in black or blue jackets one in a khaki jacket.
The omikuji owned me though, in which I drew a bad fortune lol. But thankfully nothing when wrong! Took a while for my stick to come out too, my ears were hurting from the clashing of sticks inside the metal container.
By the way, what Lucky Star CDs are those in the first picture?? I’m interested lol. Don’t remember seeing those covers.
December 27th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Nice… although just 6km!? I walk more than that to school and back =P
December 27th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I curse people who can afford going to Japan. :(
December 27th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Why did you buy a another copy of Maaya Sakamoto’s ‘Dive?’
December 27th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I like Maaya too, am I a good guy now?
I guess @home cafe is a must visit then!
December 27th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Dude, your pics doesn’t show…
December 27th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
yup thumbnails dont seem to work for day 3 in your gallery.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
nice stufffs you got there.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Congrats on getting your Haruhi DVD Volume 0
December 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Amazing pictures :)
December 27th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Walked 6k? Come on, I have an 8k race every weekend. Wish we had anime advertisements.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I heard the EVA Coffee really sucks – I guess you cant expect too much for that price :D
Great photos, hang on with your self-sacrificing uploads instead of sleep!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Hmm the thumbnails doesn’t show properly..
Feels like it’s such a nice place, especially the weather.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Thumbnails were not working because HostGator banned my image manipulation script for using too many CPU cycles. It’s okay now, I hope.
Soulshift: My old copy is Taiwanese.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Now I want to go to Japan even more and buy myself a can of Eva coffee.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Fräulein Rei….that kinda hurts. Sure hope there is no german dub from NGE out there^^
Compared to other Japan-Trip-Photo Albums, your pictures seem….quite random^^
December 27th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
You went to so many places in one day…
It seems to be very busy in this short daytime season.
BTW, Could you enjoy Akiba maid cafes (^^) ?
December 28th, 2007 at 12:51 am
Interesting bits of trivia…
What do you think of the Jam Project rendition of “Motteike! Sailor Fuku!” ? Some people think it’s disgusting, some are amazed, etc
Nice pictures and chronicling of your trip though. Why is it when one looks at one’s own trip, it is not as exciting as others…..
Though I am surprised that you, the uber-otaku, doesn’t have a Japanese sword when even I have one.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
so nice that you can visti JPN, as well as other place!!
In CF, got a ppl post thread talking about 2 event…
1 you already been..comiket
now target on JPN Animation event, which gonna happen around in March. Hope can go there with friend!!
If you gonna organize another Anime trip in future, pls inform me coz i would like to join!! XD my finacial is allow we to do so…
oh yeah, if you able visit friend or relative in M’sia..i can show you my 2004 Taipei comic world, and 2007 HK Ani-con event photo.
Share together!! XD
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You are a very smart person! :)