Japan: Emo Town?

06/19/2006

Let's see... This day we had class at the Youth Center instead of at TiTech. This was nice because it let us spend more of the day outside of class rather than getting to/from class. Of course the study rooms there are tiny, so you take what you get. Seemed like an ok day this day, so we decided to walk to 原宿 (Harajuku) from the Youth Center. The path there was nice too, because it went through Yoyogi park.


So what's Harajuku? According to Wikipedia, Harajuku became famous in the 1980s due to the large numbers of street performers and wildly dressed teens who gathered there on Sundays when Omotesando was closed to traffic. When you think of Japan and crazy fashion/hair styles, you think of Harajuku. Definitely an interesting place. Right now among the fads in Japan is English, so they've got crazy Engrish everywhere. They've also got some pretty cool shirts that I took some pics of. One of them is a bootleg Totoro shirt that says "Tonari to Retoro." Also there is a pretty decent pizza/Italian restaurant there that we ate at that also has some pretty cheap drinks.