for Lea and Vanessa

to be continued...

I have much more to write especially about food!!!! I have several restuarant I absolutely recommend but I need to get the names and areas right. Also art, so far I've only gone to one major museum here and it had a breathtaking view of Tokyo. I'll leave you guys with my shitty photos (because we all know Alex's are much better than mine)

Alex being shameless with a camera.

In Shibuya...

Food from the future...

Noodles! Nothing fancy but very exciting. It's a vending machine restaurant. You order and pay everything and it prints a ticket and then your food is made.

Consume!... ?

I've been really turned off by shopping here because they have everything and that is all there is to do. When I put that aside and embraced shopping I enjoyed myself. My adventures always start with physiological needs. usually along of the lines of "I really need to pee..." and then I find myself in a shopping mall. There are tons here!!! It's truly an experience. You get immersed into these individual worlds in these micro boutiques which spare no detail to really absorb whatever style they represent. Specifically Paraca (I'm going to have to get back on the exact name) mall in Shibuya.

Upon one of these little adventures I discoveries something spectacular. In Omotesando Hills (main shopping mall in Omotesando) I came across a Magazine Library. And it is what the name suggests. You walk into this dimly lit area with all these black bean bag sofas aligned perfectly. The room is lit up by a series of lanterns on the ceiling. You can buy yourself some nice Italian (illy) coffee while you're there. In between these little black sofas you have these boxes with an array of international fashion and art magazines, but the more underground ones, which you can pick up and read. I spent an hour there. This is only going on for a week though.

Check out the site: http://www.magazinelibrary.jp/

Shibuya Crossing

This one is especially for you Martin!


I am not big in Japan.

I've been trying to come up with something witty to say but I've grown tired of my own opinion. One thing that has deceived me though is my ongoing search for cultural shock. I ranted on and on about it the other day but I won't submerge you into this not-so-pleasant realization other than those who are truly interested in hearing. To put things short, globalization is really ruining our sense of discovery, culture... etc. You expect everything to be different and when you arrive there is Starbucks waiting for you and taunting you at every corner. But... my fellow camarades... there are NO, let me repeat NO American Apparel hipsters here! And even then the store isn't so obvious, I accidently stumbled upon it and had to go in... and even in there there were no AA hipsters! For that (and many other reasons) I love Tokyo!!!!

Photo: View from my balcony.