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Random Dancing & Team Lab

Today I skipped the class event to sleep in with my wonderful roommate Lauren and at around 11pm we left the hotel to begin our day exploring the city. It was very thunder-stormy on our train ride to Shibuya City and I really enjoyed it, we both forgot our umbrellas but I didn’t mind running around in the rain in the city, in fact I had lots of fun doing so. Our first stop was a maid cafe to grab some lunch. I personally found this experience to be so incredibly funny. I guess me and Lauren arrived at a special time because while eating our food the maids randomly broke out into dance and in the background a nerdy looking man who seemed to be a regular at the cafe was in the back going absolutely ham with glow sticks. He was doing tricks with them so hard that he has to rest periodically throughout the song the maid was preforming. After the performance the maid came up to us and asked if we enjoyed the performance, to which I responded “Yes” and that I especially liked the guy in the back, to which the maid responded with “oh yeah that guys an otaku”. Here is a picture of that maid.

After, we explored the streets of Harajuku. Lauren and I found interesting thrift stores that all sorta had a retro hip hop skater fashion vibe to them, one thrift store I was particularly interested in visiting was “Dog”. It’s a thrift store that focuses on modifying vintage clothing often by cutting up different pieces of clothing and sewing them up together. When we finally got there I didn’t end up making any purchases but I enjoyed looking at all of the very unique clothing.  We then continued on towards Takeshita Street and grabbed some food. We ended up picking Dream Station JOL in Harajuku to grab some food. We honestly just picked this area on a whim because it was the only area with a bathroom. As we were eating food in the food court of this place a random boy band that was dressed as dogs came out and began performing choreography and song out nowhere. Again I found it so hilarious that this just keeps happening today. I ending up googling the place we were at and apparently JOL is a hangout spot aimed at young teenage girls and it frequently has boy bands come over and perform. To be honest the bands were really bad but that just made the experience better for me. Heres a picture of some shoes that would get me major street cred.


To end the day we visited Team lab. Team lab was a museum I’ve been looking forward to ever since I came here and I was so happy to go. The main purpose of the museum is to be one with the art and I recommend everyone to go give it a visit. When visiting you must take your shoes off in the museum because there are sections where you’re submerged in knee deep water. Here are some photos from my Visit!











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