Showing posts with label harajuku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harajuku. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Day 5 - Tokyo Game Show

When I found out I was in Japan for Tokyo Game Show, I was over the moon! \(*T▽T*)/ next to E3 its been a dream to go there


I bought a ticket for myself and my gf, since she doesnt like games, I thought it was fair for me to pay for her since I was dragging her! I was mostly interested in any news from my favourite game, Metal Gear Solid - nothing was updated until the day before TGS where Kojima tweeted that he was going to do 2 talks when he was there - the business day and the public days. Luckily he mentioned the booth and the times! ヾ(。◕ฺ∀◕ฺ)ノ seeing hideo kojima in Japan seemed totally surreal

So, lets have some pictures shall we?


Outfit shot! Cocolulu bag with metal gear leggings and thermal top! I was all fandom-ed out!


There were /many/ people there! 


My ticket! I had to give it up when I got to the door though (┳◇┳)


The PS4 booth. I want a PS4 so bad but Im poor saving up for Japan #2  (。┰ω┰。)





And the main man himself!

( ˘ ³˘)♥ HIDEO KOJIMA ( ˘ ³˘)♥

He did a half an hour presentation of the new metal gear, including a new trailer and 15 minutes gameplay! It was awesome to see it first hand, even though it was in japanese and he made some jokes...in japanese. XD My feet were killing me but it was /so/ worth it. After the presentation, we were hungry but it was so busy and so crowded that I was getting a bit anxious, so we decided to head out to harajuku - on a saturday - to see what it was like! And it was crowded!


We finally got a crepe! They are so delicious 。♥‿♥。)


More gets from book off, animate, tgs and a vending machine hee hee >w<


We found a 24 hour bento place! 500 yen for a chicken katsu curry bento and 100 from a rice ball :D More gets from animate hahah

Next day ; Day 7 - ScReW gig (we didnt do /anything/ on day 6 apart from laundry and hanging around ikebukuro!)





Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Day 2 - Tokyo - Shibuya/Harajuku

So, we slept for about 14 hours the night before due to being exhausted but we were both ready for the day and excited to travel around and see Tokyo for the first time! And what better place to start than; Shibuya! (*´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥﹏°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ )人(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

We were both excited as this was our first proper day in Tokyo! So i had to get ready (*^▽^*)


This was my outfit for the day! A bit more colourful than I'm used to haha but I wanted to look a bit amekaji! (・∀・) 


The trains were really easy to navigate and thats what I was worried about, but we got something called a SUICA card. I recommend this as its really handed! If you get JR Narita express ticket to and from the airport (they stop at the major cities, shibuya, shinjuku, ikebukuro etc) its about 5000 yen for the ticket and 2000 yen on your SUICA - They work like underground oyster cards - you just top up at a machine (in english) and just set off! You can also use the card in stores and vending machines (*¬*) I used it alot for vending machines!


Shibuya 109! I was so happy to finally in this building! Its every womans heaven, and I know Im a little on the large side in Japan (size uk 14/16 and boobs bigger than most japanese peoples heads...) I thought I wouldnt be able to find any clothes that would fit me tbh! I was pleasently surprised! I ended up with quite a few items of clothing from there (GLAD NEWS/XOXO) and accessories from CocoLuLu and GLAVIL - Pictures of those when I get them on those days hahah But this day I bought a cocolulu bag I'd had my eye on for ages online and a GLAVIL necklace! Japanese people are so good at selling things - even to forigners omg. I said to my gf "Aww i might be too big for this clothes" and one GLAVIL girl went "no no no! You are fine,  see baggy!" and pointed to one of the jumpers hahah (´∀`) trying to tempt me to buyyyyy ~ it nearly always worked though! so be careful haha


Tsutaya records had a BIG AKB48 display omg. Their MV collection DVD was out and they were doing promotions - seriously, AKB was heard /everywhere/ (°∀°)b and i LOVED it 


Tokyo Disney Store! Now, I've been to a few disney stores in the UK but jfc they go all out for their designs in japan! They even had a spiral staircase going up to castle rooms and had lots of disney goodies! I think I ended up getting my mum some disney earrings from here! 


And yes, that is billboard of Kojima Haruna (AKB) in her underwear (⊙ヮ⊙)


And a few picutres from Harajuku! We didnt get a crepe that day, the line was reallly long haha BUT we did find the marvel that is DAISO - its like a Japanese version of Poundland and has ...everything. XD Everything random and everything is 105yen. So I got some make up and its brilliant! We also found Closet Child (with a little bit of difficulty cause the VK shop is down a corner somewhere) and went into BODYLINE. We also found a KPOP store! Thats where most presents came from, and I found an AKB48 photo store (not official obvs but I bought a few pictures and they had unofficial merch and stuff =w= i was in heaven)



My gets for the day! :D i love my BOY cap (▰˘◡˘▰)

Next up; Akihabara/Kamakura