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Published: September 28th 2009
Holy Crap! Why can't we have a place like this in toronto!
So we went to Akihabara today, and all i can say is I am in heaven! A whole city district dedicated to three things; Toys, Maid Cafes (Weird Concept and didn't go), and Electronics!
Seriously, why couldn't we have something like this in Toronto?
The day kicked off with meeting with Jessie and her friends. I must admit it was weird seeing someone I know in Toronto, but it was comforting to meet someone familiar and kinda knew Japan. She is staying here for school, so I asked her to meet up with us. We didn't hang out together that long because we wanted to check out a few places and figured it be better if we split up. She wanted to go to a maid cafe, and we didn't.
So this Maid cafe, is pretty much like hiring a slave dressed up in a maid outfit....don't ask. It was odd.
We also ran into a protest, which kinda freaked me out because it was something about foreigners being in the country. And Jessie, told me that it was something about foriegners should not
be able to stay if they don't have a japanese citizenship. And this protest was intense, but well controlled. People yelling and walking down an organized path with the police keeping order. But wow! No rioting, no weird outburst, just a lot of yelling and protesting.
But yea, back to the main reason of Akihabara, Toys and Games. I must say, some places here are like heaven! I got to finally check out the famous Super Potato, and it was amazing, i got so many sega saturn and neo geo games for under 30 bucks. I can't believe I bought so much and paid so little.
I also bought a few things from toy stores. I went into this one store and the top floor was all american toys. I got my brother this Puppet Master toy (the horror film). And Tim bought a WWF Golddust figure and Leech Women from Puppet Master. 10 bucks each!
Also went into this store called Yodabashi, where I bought curtis a Bakugan and some pokemon toys. The one thing I noticed about toys here. Is they make kids use their brains so much more then in North America. This one
pokemon toy I bought him, it is like a huge kinder egg toy, where you have to put it together.
Anybody who goes to Japan must check out Akihabara! Do not skip this place!
Anyways, the day ended with me and tim going to a Japanese restauraunt. Where we sat there for a while trying to figure things out. Like how to order, because nobody speaked english. We wanted this plate of assorted potatoes (french fries), but we couldn't find it on the menu and luckily enough the people beside us were eating it, because we had to point at that table. And I think they had a good laugh at us, but we are foreigners, so what better do we know? Right? And then we waited half an hour to figure out to pay. The food was good and the experience was one to learn from. I knew i should of taken time to understand some japanese. But all good!
Anyways, DO NOT SKIP AKIHABARA!
Day 5 is gonna be spent back here in Shinjuku, because I feel we missed out a whole bunch of stuff, on the other side of the station.
Catch
you all later.
Forgot to Mention, at night, we went to an arcade in Shinjuku and I won a figure from one of their ufo Catchers (the girl figure in the pictures). The UFO Catcher is like our crane games. My baby should be so proud that i actually got something like that from the crane games. I suck at these BTW
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That protest was...
There has been millions of illegal immigrants from Korea to Japan after the WW2, mainly around the Korean War(1950-1953). Occupied Japan(or occupying USA) had no power/will to block them. A considerable numbers of them did crimes and harmful activities, and as the result of such they got some privileges both written and unwritten. That group you saw was against such privileges, so you don't need to be afraid.