Tokyo : Shibuya

Shibuya is one place both A and I fell in love it. We had initially gone with only 2 items on our agenda, watching thousands of people cross the Shibuya Scramble, and shopping at the 109 building, where the young & hip buy their cosplay type clothes.

Well, the Scramble was everything we were told it would be. Thousands of people crossing the signal everytime the light turned green. The amazing part was that the pedestrian signals werent too far apart, it would get activated every 2 or 3 minutes, but there would be hundreds of people each time. Where do they come from?? Where do they go??

And just for the benefit of the tourists, signals from all sides would turn green at the same time.... so that everyone is crossing the street at the same time.... wonderfully chaotic, I must say!

But the real beauty of Shibuya lay on the inside streets, near the Love Hotel hill. Thats where the uniqueness of Shibuya really came to the fore. There were wonderful cobbled streets, with small, one-of-a-kind stores which were selling everything from kinky leather gear to Funky Monkey caps and food ranging from spanish tapas to street stalls with apple-cinnamon crepes.

One really cool thing we saw, was a black Hummer, with blaring speakers playing Flo-Rida's latest single (you spin me right round) and video screens on all sides playing the video. This was just parked outside the HMV store.... and was really really cool.