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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

5.12.09 Mt Fuji!!

How nice it was to get out of the city for a couple days and visit the town of Hakone which is at the base of Mt Fuji. It was a tiny little town with a bunch of natural hot springs running through it, so consequently we stayed in a hot spring hotel where you can use the public baths that have naturally hot sulphurous (?) water running through them!! SO, we slept a lot and used the spa tubs and saw Mt Fuji. Pretty amazing and a much needed vacation from Tokyo. Also, when we stopped to get off the bus to take pictures of Fuji we saw an area which was naturally erupting sulfur springs! And here they boil eggs in the sulphur lakes which makes them black, and they say if you eat one it adds 7 years to your life so I ate 2. :)

Here is the guy pulling out the freshly sulfur-water boiled black eggs!

The sulfur hot springs erupting behind me

Thursday, May 7, 2009

5.7.09 More Tokyo

Yes, these might appear to be women from far away...

However, they are men. I choose the guy in the top right corner. Hotness!!

Shibuya Crossing- this is the famous scene from Lost in Translation where she crosses the intersection with the big elephant walking on the TV screen

Its been rainy lately.

Monday, May 4, 2009

5.4.09 Omotesando Shopping

LV + Murakami Collab

Here is somebody dressed as a bear doing calligraphy on the street. I love Japan!

Want these.

Not!

Elephant Cafe where we had lunch.

The mob trying to get into the opening day of Forever 21 in Harajuku.

So, Omotesando is the craziest shopping experience I've ever had. Sometimes it was so densely packed on the sidewalks that we were just standing still, people had to walk on the street. We saw some of the famous buildings Tods, LV, etc. and I was pleasantly surprised by the Audi Building! Transformers status!

Oh, we also saw a girl who had a stuffed animal in her hair....