I will admit, they could've been better, but we were tired from walking around all day. You take what you can get. But we're in Shibuya often, so there'll be other opportunities to photograph it at night.
While we were walking around, we spotted this little shop selling some interesting and exotic merchandise - including these weird shoes.
It's sort of hard to tell from the picture, but a couple pairs of these shoes (the ones on the ends) have curled toes like elf shoes. No clue why. I think they're pretty ugly myself, and look uncomfortable.
This place, however, always catches our interest. Unfortunately, every time we pass by, neither of us are hungry. But one of these days, we are going to go get ourselves one awesome dessert. How could you pass up food that looks that good?
The next day, we went to Kinshicho (which is on the way to Funabashi, but much closer) and hit up the Tokyo Arcakit Kinshicho Daiso store. As you may have guessed, it's another 100 yen store, only this one was half the size of the other one. However, we still didn't leave without buying anything. Such is the beauty of 100 yen store shopping.
Since the store was on the 7th floor of a big department store building, we checked out some other stuff on the way down and I was again unsuccessful at finding shoes. After that, we chilled (quite literally!) outside for a bit while Cinnamon ate her Pucca snacks. They're essentially like chocolate biscuit cookies (shaped like fish and octopuses) filled with vanilla cream. ...I know you were wondering.
We checked out a few fruit stands in the area, then headed back home.
Thursday was surprisingly COLD and overcast. Seriously, I think the high must've been something like 72. Compared to the warm weather we had gotten used to, it felt pretty chilly! So dressed in pants and armed with jackets and umbrellas, we set out for Harajuku, in search of the last Daiso store on our list. It was disappointingly small, but luckily the street it was on was chock full of interesting shopping places and Cinnamon came away with a new hat.
Then we were off to Shinjuku to search for the Sanrio Shinjuku Gift Gate, as it was the only Sanrio store in the Tokyo area that we hadn't been to. We found it with a minimum of trouble and I came away with a couple of things you'll see in a later picture. From there we walked back to Harajuku and hit up Lotteria for dinner. Finally, a genuine Japanese burger chain, hahaha! Someday, we'll make the rounds to Mos Burger and Freshness Burger too. Cinnamon was disappointed that the burgers pictured on the menu didn't look at all like the ones we got, but they were still really good. And they had melon soda there! I wish we had that in the US, because that stuff is really good.
Yesterday (Friday), was the last day our rail pass was valid, so we used it to go back to Funabashi and hit up the 100 yen store one more time. (What? You can't argue with good quality, cheap goods!) Cinnamon and I both ended up buying several really cute bento boxes (essentially Japanese lunch boxes) and accessories. Here's that picture I promised you, of the things I bought at Sanrio and my bento boxes.
That would be a set of 4 nesting Cinnamoroll containers and a little set of Cinnamoroll picks (to use with the containers... for picking food).
From Funabashi, we went to Kinshicho (again) and actually bought some fruits and veggies from one of the grocery stores we had passed before. It was surprisingly cheap (for Japan)! So it's too bad Kinshicho is so far away from us or we'd go there more often to buy our fruits. It was an absolute pain (quite literally) to carry them all the way home, but that's what we get for buying all the heavy fruits.
Why all the fruit? To bring with us on a mini picnic at PaniSuta today! I know you're all dying to know what PaniSuta is (I'll give you a clue - it has to do with *pnish*), and I'd be more than happy to tell you, but I am dead tired after our busy day today, so I'll let you know how the picnic went in my next post. Two is enough for one day, I think. So look forward to it soon!
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