Gaijin • Tokyo • Undergound

I have been really obsessed with UFO catchers as of recently. I have been told i have a problem, but at least im not an alcoholic right! Well off on my wandering around Tokyo adventures i pop in a game center to scope out the prize pool and see this Mikuru fugure on the edge of falling. Apparently the previous player gave up, maybe spending too much already and retreated in defeat. A lucky break for me then! Summer in Tokyo, many game centers put all thier machines on sale for 100yen to get in the people when they are on summer break. I was able to snag this figure for only 300yen, only 3 tries, but i did have help from whover gave up before me.

On the trains recently were many advertisments for Universities all around Tokyo for open campus tours, since it about time for the high school students to start picking one. This poster is for Teikyo University. Ive heard its not a good place to go if you want to get a real degree, but i dont care, if they have a hot regby team ill go just to oggle them as they grab at each other on the field!

This is a first for me, its a Cornet bread roll and soft serve ice cream. This was on a side street of harajuku's main shopping street Takeshita dori. I didnt want to buy one at this time because i had just ate a 100yen cone from McDonalds right before, plus im not sure if 400yen is a fair price for it. 300yes is a little more reasonable. If you get a chance to go to Harajuku try one out and tell me if its worth spending the 400 yen on it.

In Harajuku is a large 100 yen shop know as DAISO. If you ever go to Harajuku im sure you will have popped into here since its on the main shopping street. I wanted to get out of the heat for a few minutes, so i headed in to buy a cold drink and wander about cooling down. In the school items section i found many cute items including this notebook. Reading the verbage on it, at first it made sense, but then hit, it was fucked up engRish. "When i separate a hand, where does you fly to?" how poetic!

Looking for something good for dinner i was going around Kichijoji and i come up on this sign for Shabu Shabu. A "Key point" for eating shabu shabu is to skim the scum... really, you had to use that word and associate it with food? Im sure you could have said skim the froth, but SCUM? I dont feel like eating it now.

I stopped by the big UNQULO in Kichijoji to see if there were any good sales going on. When i get in there most of the summer clothing is gone and its almost all Fall clothing. I kind of hate that they put the next seasons items so far in advance. If its still swealtering hot i dont think you are in the mood to buy fall clothing items. But so far from what ive seen for the fall UNIQULO line, none to impressive. Most looks likes last years releases which were nice for that time. They should really come up with better options instead of rehashing.