Harajuku Girls....
30.06.2005
21 °C

Irrassiamase!!!Started our day by visiting the Ginza district to get some breakfast and check out the big designer stores!Its so bizarre to see all the neon and huge colourful buildings up close!
On Gwen Stefani's influence we made the pilgrimage to Harajuku to do some serious shopping!!!this place was unreal, all the bright colours, kitsch dress sence, the energy.....

I Love it here,so many cool things to see!this is shopping heaven for me seriously, picked up some corker jewellery!Big pink plastic hearts..... All the little boutiques were crowded with crazily dressed teenagers in children print dresses, fluffy socks, pink wigs!!! All the staff would almost sing "Irrasiamasse" which means welcome and all you could hear throughout Takeshita Street was cheesy Japanese pop music and wails of welcome! It was such a bizarre experience and left me feeling totally inspired!!!

Tonight we met Miriam Kinjou, the chief designer from "Renown America", for the Rebecca Taylor Japan range...she was great she took us out, showed us around, we got taken to meet the girls who worked in the store, she was really helpful! She showed us around 'Isetan' a big department store, where we discussed the difference of western and Japanese fashion and how different ideas appeal to different nationalities!!!She then took us to a food market and made us sample some local delicacies such as pickled cabbage, blue seaweed! We saw the fish market where there were live eels and some pretty scary looking sharks!

We also paid a visit to the Tokyo Tower....
Me and Daniel then spent the night gazing in awe at the bright lights of Shinjuku before grabbing some dinner!We knew it was time to go home when I almost got sold into the illicit sex trade after stumbling into a not so pleasant area!!!!

Posted by Twinkle 6:06 PM Archived in Round the World | Japan







