Sun, metro, music and fun, that's the right description of what we do/how we feel here in Tokyo. Day 5 was probably the longest day for us since we arrived; and it was all good walking through parks and different neighbourhoods. I can't complain as I haven't seen rain for the last three weeks which is hard to believe since you know we're from Belgium haha...
My girl woke up this morning telling me we definitely should go hit the park so I deicded to take her to the Shinjuku park (went to Disk Union right before); one of the nicest parks in the city. The park is divided in a Japanese style, a French style and an English style, all that in the heart of the Shinjuku area, reminds me a bit of Central Park in New York City. It's also very nice to see how clean it is, before sitting in the grass I looked around to see if there was no dog sh*t, of course not, and there's not even garbage cans in these parks (nor in the city).
We hung around for two hours enjoying the sun and the rain of cherry flowers, a beautiful view and a typical manga thing. My plan was actually to move to Akihabara, the electronic part of the city. A huge avenue and sidestreets full of electronic shops, pachinkos and videogames, a lotta noise and lots of fun for gadget freaks like me!
It's the kind of place where you will find everything you've been missing in Europe; mostly we're talking about detached pieces but not only that. In Akihabara you can find older stuff too, older models of headphones you prefered, older mixers, I actually found that old Technics battle mixer we had in gold in Europe in a shop but in the Japanese version which is different, in silver and not shiny, nice. We jumped in one of those crazy photo booths and did a couple pictures in Tokyo style, a certified gold souvenir if you visit that neighbourhood.
From there we went straight to Ikebukuro, on the other side of town. A very nice part with a lot of youngsters hangin' around, that means crazy haircuts, incredible clothes, nice shoes and cellphones. Talking about cellphones, what would a Japanese do without his phone on the train? Sleep? Haha, anyway, back to Ikebukuro.
There's a shopping center called Sunshine City, a building so high you might see the Fuji from up there, a city in the city as they say. Sunshine City has everything inside, and on the top of the building there's a restaurant and a sightseeing deck. I think Ikebukuro is booming right now, lots of new chainstores at unbeatable prices open there, Big Camera for example is probably the best shop in Japan, the cheapest to buy your stuff. Cheaper than Akihabara, the real electronic part of town so that says enough. Make sure to pass by Ikebukuro when you're in Tokyo, it's easy to get there with the JR Yamanote, it's the circle line around the city.
Sayonara 
ps: Day 6 is all about radio & party.
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tracks
21/04/2009 at 08:35
very very good look , the many color et géometric bulding, and teh big mouvement people!
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greyone
28/05/2009 at 05:59
cool