Apparently Japan didn’t want to spoil us to only good weather. Today was cloudy to start and rainy to end.\u00a0Luckily, the temperatures weren’t too chilly making being out and about in the rain more bearable.<\/p>\n
Started the day back in Akihabra for lunch and then headed back to Harajuku to try and catch the people dressed up to be in photo shoots. I guess the rain scared them off or we were just too late\u00a0because\u00a0there were very few people in the area that\u00a0should\u00a0have been flooded with photographers and people aching to make it in magazines and advertisements.<\/p>\n
We spent a little more time shopping on\u00a0Takeshita Street. I found a few more\u00a0souvenirs\u00a0and got a delicious\u00a0cr\u00eape. Not something I would have ever expected to find in Tokyo, but it was a welcomed\u00a0surprise.<\/p>\n
The rain drove us back to our hotel where we\u00a0dried\u00a0off and took a little break. We had a little trouble with the original booking for Kyoto (the hotel ended up being full) so we got that all straightened out and decided to stay one more day in Tokyo. So, tomorrow is now the last day here and the last night will be spent at a different hotel closer to central Shinjuku and Shinjuku Station. That’s going to leave us in Tokyo on New Year’s Eve, and that greatly excites me. Now to find the best place to be at 23:59 tomorrow evening…<\/p>\n
Feeling brave, we ventured back in the rain to Ginza (high end shopping area from a few days ago) in search of a store where apparently any size\u00a0piece\u00a0of luggage is only \u00a55,000 (at least that was Max’s experience last time). After a lengthy Metro ride, we came up from the underground at Ginza Crossing and boom, there was the place. Apparently inflation has struck Japan like it has in America,\u00a0because\u00a0any size\u00a0piece\u00a0of luggage was now \u00a55,250 (a whole $2.90 more haha). They did have every size of luggage one could want. I had been looking in the States for a carry-on size hard shell bag to match my cargo sized suitcase and I found one here … for just\u00a0\u00a55,250, of course!<\/p>\n
The rain had been persistent today. Before we left the luggage store, the clerk wrapped our bags for us leaving only the wheels exposed so we could still roll them. That was nice of him, but now we looked like a couple of inbreds rolling plastic wrapped luggage down the streets of Ginza. Passing people carrying new purchases from Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton … and here we are with a couple of\u00a0pieces\u00a0of knock-off luggage wrapped in plastic like they would melt. Oh well, it was fun and we got a lot of looks, but completely worth it and now I have a nice bag for my\u00a0souvenirs!<\/p>\n
That’s it for day 5. Check-out of Hotel Listel Shinjuku<\/a> is by 10 am tomorrow morning and check-in at E-Hotel<\/a> is at 15:00, so hopefully they won’t mind us dropping our bags off early.<\/p>\n Loving Tokyo and hoping the post office is open tomorrow, I have some things to\u00a0mail. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently Japan didn’t want to spoil us to only good weather. Today was cloudy to start and rainy to end.\u00a0Luckily, the temperatures weren’t too chilly making being out and about in the rain more bearable. Started the day back in Akihabra for lunch and then headed back to Harajuku to try and catch the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}