Geek Golden Week - Harajuku and Shibuya
It was Golden Week last week (the main national holiday week :D) so I took the opportunity to go to Tokyo to meet up with Martin who was over for a holiday.
The surprising thing was that when Martin was checking into the hostel in Asakusa he Bumped into another traveler from my Computer arts course! So the three of us went around Tokyo together. It was pretty random as its TOKYO! Seriously! Stuff like that just doesnt happen :) But it was pretty awesome.
So first off we headed to Yoyogi park to see the rockers as it was a Sunday and they were out in full view.
Some of the rockers out in the park, it was pretty wild and there was a group of denim and leather rockers dancing it out.
This bulldog was pretty cute.
Some of the cosplayers on the bridge... lame lame and lame. Because the police put a stop to the cosplayers and the rockers, there wasnt as many as there used to be. But this guy in pink... wrong in so many ways!
We then headed to the Design Festa Gallery to have a look at the art work.
The art on display was good. Had some drinks there and then off explore.
There was plenty of far, wrongly dressed foreigners.
Off to Shibuya for some drinks. Darth Vader adverts everywhere.
The New Uniqlo store was awesome. One Piece T-Shirts ahoy.
We then went to the Lock-up which was a prison based restaurant. We headed in and there was lots of scary things jumping out at you and David and Martin were handcuffed by the hostess of the restaurant. We were then taken to a tiny prison cell for our meal.
Some of our drinks :D thats a mixing kit for cocktails.
Eye ball drink.
Yummy Yummy
Martin
David, the mad Scientist!
During the meal the lights went out and music came on and some scary monsters started came in and scared the prisoners. It was pretty cool. We has Jason come in and also some sort of werewolf type person. It was awesome. Even the food had themes to it. The salad came with dry ice dressing. It was coooooool as.
After the lockup we headed back to the hostel for a well deserved rest, in a capsule hotel!
Small and comfortable but super hot at night! Tokyo was 20 degrees at night! Back to normality then.
Awesome First day in Tokyo!
The surprising thing was that when Martin was checking into the hostel in Asakusa he Bumped into another traveler from my Computer arts course! So the three of us went around Tokyo together. It was pretty random as its TOKYO! Seriously! Stuff like that just doesnt happen :) But it was pretty awesome.
So first off we headed to Yoyogi park to see the rockers as it was a Sunday and they were out in full view.
Some of the rockers out in the park, it was pretty wild and there was a group of denim and leather rockers dancing it out.
This bulldog was pretty cute.
Some of the cosplayers on the bridge... lame lame and lame. Because the police put a stop to the cosplayers and the rockers, there wasnt as many as there used to be. But this guy in pink... wrong in so many ways!
We then headed to the Design Festa Gallery to have a look at the art work.
The art on display was good. Had some drinks there and then off explore.
There was plenty of far, wrongly dressed foreigners.
Off to Shibuya for some drinks. Darth Vader adverts everywhere.
The New Uniqlo store was awesome. One Piece T-Shirts ahoy.
We then went to the Lock-up which was a prison based restaurant. We headed in and there was lots of scary things jumping out at you and David and Martin were handcuffed by the hostess of the restaurant. We were then taken to a tiny prison cell for our meal.
Some of our drinks :D thats a mixing kit for cocktails.
Eye ball drink.
Yummy Yummy
Martin
David, the mad Scientist!
During the meal the lights went out and music came on and some scary monsters started came in and scared the prisoners. It was pretty cool. We has Jason come in and also some sort of werewolf type person. It was awesome. Even the food had themes to it. The salad came with dry ice dressing. It was coooooool as.
After the lockup we headed back to the hostel for a well deserved rest, in a capsule hotel!
Small and comfortable but super hot at night! Tokyo was 20 degrees at night! Back to normality then.
Awesome First day in Tokyo!