After walking through Yoyogi Park and seeing Meiji Shrine, we continued to Takeshita Street in Harajuku for shopping.
Takeshita Dori
The symbol of Harajuku and birthplace of many of Japan’s fashion trends, Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street) is a narrow, roughly 400 meter long street lined by shops, boutiques, cafes and fast food outlets targeting Tokyo’s teenagers. – japan-guide
Wasn’t too crowded around 2-3 PM, but it gets crowded around 5-6 (and always crowded on weekends^^).
Takeshita street is definitely the best part of Harajuku, if you like shopping that is. There are lots of awesome stores and everything is really cheap.
Daiso! This is the 100 yen shop in Harajuku, basically 4 floors of lots of crap. It has a lot of stuff the convenience stores have, but cheaper. Magnus and I bought a lot of instant noodles here :P
Magnus and Lisa after visiting Daiso.
Lots of pink stuff everywhere!
And also a few stores for the fan girls. We didn’t go in but I’m guessing it’s a lot like the Hello! Project stores but for girls, or for anyone liking Japanese boy bands I guess.
Many stores with cosplay costumes too. I thought that mannequin in the middle was a real person first xD
I’ve walked by LAFORET Grand Bazar twice now and it’s been super crowded every time, hard to make it through when you’re going home^^
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We have a Daiso here. I love it! You can get all kinds of cheap useless things.
Nice! Wish we had something like it in Sweden!
原宿はすばらしいね！I must say that you look like you’re having an absolute ball. It’s so great to see so many familiar places through your pictures; I really cannot wait until I am there in Feb!
wow so nice to see these places again. I miss Tokyo …da neeee!!
Ha! Daiso! They have that here in Singapore as well. My wife loves to go there and poke around. She could browse the store for an hour and not get bored. Thankfully I have an iPhone now to keep me occupied.
dude! I just got back from Tokyo this weekend, but I couldn’t remember the name of the infamous street in Harajuku! This was it! thank you. We went there twice. The first time we we’re there early afternoon and saw bits and pieces of the fashion in the streets. The majority of the visk/lolita/goth/punk/decora/etc. fashion that is so famous was seen on a rack or on the few clerks of BodyLine. We saw one girl dressed head to toe in a cute blue lolita and we loved it! Other than that there we’re very few over the tops like we we’re hoping for, and they were Visual/Oushire-kei. The second time was just a quick blow the rest of our yen and get away from the thirteen-year-old barbie-doll-wannabees we we’re with. We left them at the hotel and journeyed over to find…….Harajuku closes down at 8 on Thursdays. We got there around 7:30. We walked down once just to see what they had again, then turned back towards the station for a final blow-our-money-cuz-we-saw-this-in-that-store-and-this-in-the-other-one. And we turned around to find only the convenience store and a few others we’re open. The things we wanted we shut down as soon as we left em or something! We walked around a bit more and hit the two shops that we’re open (they were: frickin-expensive and pink-accessory-obsession)(We we’re more in the market for Visual-kei/punk, and Gothic Lolita). Then we hit the Meiji-dori street and immediately thought: “Wow, the entire block became home of the Gals.” Without hope we ventured one last up the Takeshita-dori and just at the end we caught the glimpse of a very nice example of Visual-kei. Dressed in blood-stained white pants and top and decked with the hair and nose-piece of Reita from the band The GazettE, she was turning out of a mini mall that had closed up. If we had only had our cameras we would have tracked her down and attacked with questions and pictures, as well as missing the train and having to wait another 10 mins, and missing the final shuttle back to the hotel and the brats. Just thought I’d share my experience since you shared yours. And yes, I definitely remember that Idol-store. Filled with pictures of any hot well-known Asian boy lined the walls and a few 200-yen games disbursed key-chains of members of some popular bands. I didn’t get my favorite member of The GazettE but didn’t have any more money so that was a bit disappointing(but hey! it was still fun!). Any day I would go back to Harajuku (preferably Takeshita-dori) in a heartbeat. Thanks for sharing you pictures and helping me remember the name of the street. I will return one Sunday and get the goth/punk fashion of the infamous bridge outside the Meiji-jingu that we didn’t get to see. I hope you enjoyed yourself like we did.
Wow, thank you for sharing your story! :D I went there 3 times actually, but I never saw too many cosplayers, as I didn’t go on a Sunday, I’ll make sure to do that next time though!
I would love to go back to Takeshita Street sometime soon, the shopping there is just great! I bought lots of clothes there, it’s cheap (compared to a lot of the clothes in Shibuya 109) and very nice^^
Did you go to Daiso too? We bought lots of crap in there XD
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