Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Omotestand and Harajuku is a shopping area. One one street they have stores that you would typically see in any shopping area – including an apple store. Parallel to that street called Takeshita Street that is focused on teens. I had never seen anything quite like it before. Although the tour guide and internet describes it as being a youthful area, it was clear this was for young girls. There was more bright pink along that street than I have ever seen. There were so many candy and ice cream shops that I could smell the sugar in the air.
There were large groups of teenage girls. Many of them were dressed in their school uniforms. Others were dressed up as dolls and other – I couldn’t tell you. This is not a blue jeans and t-shirt culture. Although this was a three-ring circus, I didn’t take many pictures, I felt there was something wrong with taking pictures of these teenage girls.
At one point, I noticed an old woman dressed as a school girl and I thought, you have gotten to be kidding me! She had to be at least 70! As we walked by her, Sophon said, “That is not a woman!”. I was trying not to be judgmental, but there is something wrong with an old man dressed in a school girl uniform in an area catering to teenage girls.
We spotted a McDonald’s. As with every trip, if there is a McDonald’s I have to at a minimum check it out. I didn’t see anything on the menu that looked all that different with the exception that I couldn’t read the menu. It was all in Japanese and no English. I made Sophon promise that we not mention it to the rest of the people on our tour.
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