Perri had it in her head that she wanted to go to the bridge in Harajuku where the kids in their lavish clothing congregate to have people take pictures of them on the weekends. So we did. It was quite interesting [and envy-inspiring] to see the Gothic Lolita, Lolita, Kegadoru [bandage] fashions.....If you want to see more pictures of any of these, Google is a great help.

We trekked around Harajuku again today, but this time we stopped in some pretty well-known stores in the Japanese fashion scene. Putumayo, milk, H. Naoto. were the main ones, all containing fashions that are unseen in America, all expensive, and all really petite in size. In all of these fashion stores, the girls working the counter had to dress in the clothes they were selling...at the Lolita-type store [which I think is called Body Line] the employee was sooooo pretty! She had pink hair and looked like she had stepped out of a magazine! I wanted to take her picture soooo bad, but there was a sign that definately forbid any pictures. We went to a non-clothing store [whose name I don't recall atm], that sold stationary, candy and toiletries like nail stuff, costmetics and lotions. One of the things that caught my attention was these little cubby holes of toothpaste, arranged under little icons. I pulled one out and realized it was Rose toothpaste. They had a variety of awkward flavors, like peach and banana and coffee [which seems rather counterproductive, if you ask me]. At first I thought they made your breath smell like whatever the picture was on the tube, but Perri confirmed that those were flavors [she said that they have rose candy which doesn't taste all that great....]

After we got bored with Harajuku, we jumped on the train and headed one stop over to Shinjuku, which is like the New York City of my area. TONS of people, basically. We managed to score some free stuff, however. Like NYC, Tokyo typically has people standing out on the sidewalk in front of their job handing out promotional materials like flyers or little packs of tissues with ads on them. Where we were today, there were ladies handing out these little pink plastic bags with brochures in them. In the one brochure were two little sample packets of facial something or other [makeup foundations, I think]. I ended up with four little packets altogether, because so long as they don't see the pink bag in your hand, they keep trying to hand you another one. I also got a sample pack of those breath strip things, because as a promotional stunt they had a game set up out front of a large department store, where you threw a velcro ball at a picture of a rose, and whatever number section of the rose it stuck to was the prize you got.

We headed down the way we had gone on our walking tour with our dorm, because we were in search of a store called Don Quixote. On the tour, they had said this place had everything, and that everything was stacked so high it was most likely a fire hazard. The people on the tour were right. Anything you could think of, they had....winter wear, underwear, groceries, pet supplies, cell phone accessories, video games, 'adult' items, CD's, DVD's, appliances, toiletries, jewelry, light fixtures....it was like a disorganzied flea market with some pricey items.....

....I don't think I have any observations for this entry. I'm sorry it was so short, but it was more of a "see" day than it was a "tell" day....meaning you should check the pictures for this entry for a good time xD