Harajuku

Yesterday I spent the day in Harajuku shopping with Jillian, Yumi, Natsuki, and Sakura. Harajuku is considered to be a fashion center of the world and on Sundays young people dress up in different styles (gothic lolita, cosplay, and visual kei) to hang out there. We saw some of these dressed up kids but it started raining kind of hard on us before we could make it to Jingu Bridge where they typically gather.

We did get to see lots of cute clothes and accessories though. Along the main shopping street, Takeshita, there are little street stores everywhere and many of them had really good deals. Not only were the stores wall-to-wall but so were the people! It was very crowded but that was part of the experience.

The most crowded place we went to was Forever 21, one of my favorite stores in America. We thought it would be cool to see the same store in Japan. It was pandamonium! There was a line of people trying to get into the store with police men directing the crowd traffic and since it was raining everyone had their umbrellas out so it was difficult to navigate.

Once inside the store, we basically had to follow the movement of traffic because any way you turned there was someone trying to walk towards you. There was no way I could shop like that but luckily the clothes seemed to be the same as the Forever 21s in America so I just was able to enjoy the chaos.


L: The line trying to get inside of Forever 21. Yes, even the people with their backs to the camera are in line.

















R: The crowd of people shopping (or attempting to) inside the store.