SUNDAY - TOKYO 
AKIHABARA
SUNDAY - TOKYO
AKIHABARA
| So far I'd seen things I had before on my last trip, but in the afternoon we headed somewhere different. This is the Akihabara area of Tokyo. |
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| Into Japanese pop culture? This is the place for you. |
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| Video games, electronics and anime are all over the place. |
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| This street was blocked off for pedestrians. I don't know if that's just a Sunday thing but there were a lot of people walking around. |
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| What is a trip without a picture of an adult business. The fetish stuff is in the basement. |
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| Another kind of business in the area is the maid cafe. Who wouldn't want to go to a cafe where all the young female servers are dressed up in little maid outfits? |
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| Go ahead and look on YouTube for maid cafes. It's kind of weird and fascinating. |
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| Pachinko! |
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| The machines are a lot fancier than they used to be. They have video screens and whatnot. |
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| ¥2100 to ¥6800 will get you a figurine of a big-breasted, sometimes weirdly alien looking anime chick. |
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| It was a crisp sunny Sunday afternoon. |
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| Taking pictures of the girls in costumes advertising the maid cafes is generally frowned upon, but I took a picture of the store and this woman just happened to be in the photo. She does not look too happy about doing her job. Maybe it's because it's a little cold and breezy. |
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| Not only does that cafe have world champion oil noodles, but the waitresses can shoot lasers from their fingers! |
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| This is one of the little side streets. |
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| If you didn't spend your yen on one of those anime figurines, you could get an adult anime DVD or computer game. |
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| One of many 7-Elevens. There were fewer of these than I saw in Hong Kong. There were also a lot of other convenience stores around, but 7-Eleven has the delicious little teriyaki rice cakes I like so much. |
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| Back in Urayasu. Lisa picked us up at the train station and drove us around a bit. This is part of the water or sewer system that was thrust upward in the earthquake on 2011. They left it this way as a memorial of the event. |
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| We went to dinner with the family at this restaurant in the shopping center next to the train station. |
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| They mostly have pork and shellfish, but I was able to get this chicken instead. There is also rice, soup and tea. See, I can eat Japanese food if there is someone with me who can help order. |
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| Stopped off at a grocery store before heading back to the apartment. Even if I ate shellfish I don't think I would want to eat these creepy-looking things. They are like aliens escaping from clam shells. |
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