Tokyo - willy wonka chocolate

Today i had a long day in harajuku and shibuya trying to photograph as much lolitas for my project as i could. I then went into a pharmacy to get something for my stomach and ended up finding a willy wonka chocolate instead!! To bad that it was 6.000 yen (about 42€ - 37£!!)







And then today..from my bedroom window..








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Tokyo - day off

Yesterday i took a day off as i was a bit tired to walk everyday, i slept a bit more and then had some Ramen in a restaurant not too far away with Yoko and her dad who is really i nice person. I then watched him cook a bit in the kitchen (he is a chef) and was amazed by how quickly he wad cleaning and cutting the fish to make sashimi.



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Tokyo - visual kei

So today after trying sumo for the second time i walked around shinjuku and then in the evening Sarah and I attended a visual kei event. I wish i was able to take decent pictures there, but unluckily it was forbidden. I didn't know much about visual kei, but it was a lot of fun to watch both the performers and the girls of fanclubs who where dancing in perfect unison to the songs, really amazing. I got a small video of that, but i m afraid i won t be able to post it from the phone as it may need to be converted.









Btw there is a thing that sell flowers on the tube, haha!

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Tokyo - sumo + christon cafe

I ve been Getting up very early in the morning in the past few days to try to photograph sumo trainings, but i had no luck so far. I will give it another chance on monday :)










I also went to a cafe called 'christon' with the lovely Sarah, it was some kind of pub/restaurant/cafe that looked like a prophaned gothic church. It was really a nice not for tourist place and.. Of course we had some cakes :)

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Tokyo - Tokyo tower + Ginza

Today i started visiting the city by myself once again.
I went to the Tokyo tower (some kind of red copy of the eiffel tower but like 8meters higher hehe) and then had some 'bento' in a park as it finally has stopped raining.



















From the tower










(..yes that should be me haha)










Then went the zojo-ji buddist temple next of the tower, sorry it is really an awful picture, anyway it was lovely.










Finally i finished the day by visiting The posh Ginza distric, and the laica ginza salon where there was a photographic exibition.

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Tokyo - Ebisu + Karaoke

Yesterday was the last day of lovely Tomoko in Tokyo. We went to Ebisu to see a museum of photography, but then discovered that in Japan museums are closed on monday! So we took pictures of ourself next to one of the main point of the Hana Yori Dango drama! :)))













Since it was raining we decided to go Karaoke, and sang some funny bad songs (backstreet boys and britney spears included!)

















I'm always feeling guilty eating cakes here.. They look lovely all the time!

After karaoke i had to say goodvye to dear Tomoko and went back home to cook something with Yoko. She teached me how to prepare onigiri, i hope i will learn how to do Yakitori as well in the next few days.






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Tokyo - Akihabara

Tomoko and i adventured in Akihabara the other day. We entered in some used camera shops and then went to a maid cafe!





The cafe was very cute and pink and girls dressed like maids were serving us tea and cakes. Unluckily we couldn t take pictures of them, but we had fun there.













Our cute cakes :)













at one of the photography shops (we had to take pictures of that london thing as well!)






Tomoko did an origami with a small chew wrapping while on the tube, i was amazed :)







Then we finished the day by going to eat korean with some new friends.

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Tokyo - Tomoko-chan

Today i met my good friend Tomoko, she came from Osaka to stay a couple of days in Tokyo. We cook Naba soup and eat in a japanese style, it was lovely too see her after long time :)



Naba soup




Funny Tomoko-chan :)

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Tokyo - grocery store

Yesterday i went to the shops with Yoko to buy stuff to cook italian spaghetti together. it was funny to see what they are selling there. Especially the sweets and fishes part :))



Pink stuff.


Lots of Sake








Yoko with spaghetti alla bolognese

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Tokyo - Shibuya

Today i finally went to the Shibuya district. There I saw the famous statue of the dog that waited for his master to come back for years until he died.











I then had a some sushi and met Sarah in Ikebukuro. She is a very lovely french girl, we took some purikura and had a yummy cake together :)













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Tokyo - Edo Tokyo Museum

Yesterday was my first laundry day in japan :)






I then went out with lovely Yoko to the Edo Tokyo museum and saw some very beautiful Ukiyo-e there.

















Finally i walked in Shinjuko to see how it looked at night. Lovely and very packed :)







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Tokyo - Ueno zoo

So today i decided to go to the zoo (even if i usually don t like zoo..) as i wanted to see the big panda that live there :)) only that when i arrived i discovered that there were no more panda as the one they had died of heart attack!! Poor panda.








So after zoo time, i went back to Shinzuku to an used cameras shop. They really had a lot of stuff and i bought a camera grip for my Dslr yeay! I also looked for an unhealty long time all the good and too expensive stuff they had there :)


And finally had a chocolate cake and some magazine reading at one if the Marui building! Nice!


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