Today is █████████████'s birthday, and we have a dinner reserved in Skytree. Since it was booked for 7:00 PM, we had plenty of time to do something else today, and we’ve decided to go to Harajuku.
Between our lodging near Sangubashi station and Harajuku, lies a huge park with Meiji Jingu shrine in middle of it. Last time I’ve been here it was raining, so there was a lot less people around here. It was nicer, but its still nice to be able to go into such a huge park where you can’t even see any skyscrapers around.
Takeshita street is slop just as last time. Maybe a little better, since there’s more space given that people don’t have to hold umbrellas. We went into Uniqlo and Daiso around here, and █████████████ got a few lil thingamabobs.
After passing through the hell, we continued the walk into Cat Street, and it was much more chill and pleasant. We found a cute shop and █████████████ got a nice piece of clothing. Disappointingly, Cat Street is not actually themed after cats at all…
We got pretty hungry at this point, so we started looking for restaurants. Found some yummy Udon restaurant, but it ended up having a huge line. Then found good yakiniku restaurant, and it was the same issue… Continued walking through the street until we found a low-key cafe and decided to go inside.
It was a pretty unique and tasty meal. Felt sort of both traditional and unique at the same time due to addition of Miso and hijiki. The bread was very sweet, but it paired very nicely with the porridge (called Ojiya).
We started going home now, but saw a very cool looking mall with greenery at top, so we went there. There was nice chairs and we just chilled there for a while. Apparently █████████████ wants to meet too, and we could do it even today since he was literally 800 meters away, but we would have to start preparing for the Skytree in like 2 hours, so decided to move that for tomorrow.
It was quite hot and we got home tired and a bit sweaty… Had like a hour to rest and dress fancy.
Going to Skytree required going on the Shinjuku line, which felt much more local and idk… poorer, I guess, lol. Not sure how else to describe it. Was much less pleasing to use than JR lines, and kinda reminded me of Osaka metro.
We got to the Skytree Mall and went to a shop █████████████ wanted to visit. She bought some more cutebobs. She then noticed a wallet that looked good for her, and without checking the price bought it, and then regretted it a lot, since it was really overpriced. But at least she might gonna finally stop losing money (I think she lost like 17,000 yen at this point due to her wallet barely holding up).
We were brought into Skytree through the VIP line, and it felt super cool. We got to skip like 200 people waiting in the line.
Just last time, I’ve had the greatest dinner of all time. I’d say it was slightly worse, though, since it was ox tail instead of wagyu. Still really good.
I really love watching the night city scenery from here in a calm atmosphere. This place was where I fell in love with Japan and started feeling like "oh yeah, I want to live here".
I fucked up the ISO and basically all photos came out blurry… I don’t know why I didn’t check any of the photos… Felt really disappointed when I got home.
