Harajuku aka: 原宿

I simply LOVE Harajuku! I made my husband take me back there again on the last day of our trip. I could have spent days going in and out of all the different shops. I left with 4 new additions to my bag collection/obsession. This was by far my most favorite part of our trip to Tokyo!

Spend a day walking around Harajuku and you’ll get more than you ever need for a gaggle of sights. Harajuku is well-known for its boutiques and bistros; famous for its Harajuku Kids and Cos-play-zoku aka The Costume Play Gang, a day spent here is a day in voyeur’s paradise.

You can check out my Harajuku Photo Journal at My Several Worlds

so_~~~ good place to visit.
I wanna stay there at least 3 months.

interesting

I’m a foreigner myself, so I’m not anti-foreigner here. The first time I went to Harajuku station, it was pretty cool. I went to the bridge, saw the kids, took some pics, the usual. After going back a few more times, like for the cherry blossom festivals, it got really old with all the westerners trying to take pictures. You can’t even walk across the bridge, or take a photo, without being surrounded by a hundred guys who think they’re professional photographers because they bought a $1,000 camera and shop at a second-hand store. Maybe I’m just easily annoyed, but Harajuku station definitely seems like a place for those who try to avoid the “mainstream” to go and be and grow a little more pretentious. Don’t let that discourage you of course. It’s a great place to add to your 43 places!

Well first of all Japan will have every electronic gadget under the sun and secondly Gwen Stefani’s harajuku girls have always intrigued me.

I just learned that Hysteric Glamour sells art books. I may not have the extra money to spend on their clothes (even though I REALLY REALLY wish I did), but I could afford their lovely, lovely books.

I’m currently living in the Harajuku area! This place is DEFINETLY worth visiting! I grew up in the US and I would always beg my mom to take us to Japan and I made my first trip there with my parents when I was 12. I fell in love with it and always knew I wanted to live there…so here I am!

I’ve been wanting to go to Japan as long as I can remember. I want to save lots of money and then go shopping for street fashion and things that I KNOW you can’t get here.

A couple of years ago, I spent two months living in a suburb of Kyoto. Japan isn’t a very big country, but I never made it to Tokyo at all.

My absolute favorite part of living in Japan was being around all the amazing fashion. The first time I heard the song “Harajuku Girls” I knew exactly what Gwen Stefani was talking about. I want to go to Harajuku and be surrounded by all of the amazing-ness even more than I was before.

One of my friends is studying in Tokyo right now, and every time she writes on an away message that she’s in Harajuku I think a little part of me dies of jealousy.