Tokyo, Japan, Day 2

Day 2 My friend originally planned to come to Seoul at the end of April, but because of the tensions with North Korea, she thought it was safer to change her 2nd-to-last destination to Singapore. Given that, we decided to go to Koreatown in Tokyo for lunch on Day 2. It's really close to Shinjuku Station (you can see signs with the Korean alphabet from the train platform). We walked for a ways down the street, but besides Kpop-themed cafes, cosmetics stores, and a bunch of restaurants serving the same mediocre food (with some Kpop stars' signed pictures on the walls), there really wasn't much to be seen in Koreatown.


A drawing on the street featuring some popular Korean actors.
My favorite Kpop band had a display box at a cafe we stopped at.


I went to middle one's fan meeting with Iza in January. And G-Dragon
and TOP watching me drink coffee was more creepy than "happy."

Then we decided to walk towards the Tokyo Government Buildings. On the 45th floor, there are two observation decks. Don't be confused (as we were) and think there's one deck in each building just because there are two buildings and two decks, heh. They're both in Building Number 1 (the northern one, I think).



Some trees along the road, and a view of Building #1, plus two views from the top.
In the right picture, on a clear day, supposedly you can see Mt. Fuji in the distance.


We saw a pretty park with a waterfall from above, so we made our way there after we left the observation deck.


Signs mentioning Tokyo as a 2020 Olympics Candidate City were all over the place.

After Shinjuku, we went to Harajuku Takeshita Street in Shibuya. There are lots and lots of clothing stores. The street starts by the subway, and at the end, there are lots of high end brands (Dior, Chanel, Burberry) and fancy restaurants. We picked a place to eat from our "50 things to do in Harajuku" guide (or maybe we picked it from a "nearby restaurants" Google search... I can't remember).



The sign at the entrance. And a picture of the Daiso store! (It's a Japanese dollar store, but it's
popular in Korea too.) And one of the many boutiques along the street with interesting clothes for sale.


The tasty roto-sushi restaurant we ate at. Sushi comes around on different color
plates, and each color has a different price. You can also order from the menu.


After paying probably $15 each for a little bit of sushi, we went to an upscale grocery store
(similar to Shinsegae in Korea) and saw aisles and aisles of fish! In the right picture, the left
column of salmon is ~$5 a pack, and the right column is ~$6 a pack.