Harajuku on Sunday

We‘re all here to look at the beautiful people.

The Harajuku is the forward fashion district in Tokyo.
That means a rather scrubbed, somewhat anime-
inspired goth look for the youth in tight alley shops.

Sports-wear seems to come in a close second as a
theme. Plenty of japlish tshirts (I swear they go out of
their way to make the words awkward -

there are plenty of proficient english speakers around. The syntactical
mangling has become tactical.

Cleanest, happiest goths I’ve ever seen.

On the main streets, big names out of any fashion
magazine in tall glass towers.

Off to the side, the Togo shrine with a smallish
bi-monthly clothing and stuff flea market.

No great bargains this time
- no fill a big bag for 1,000 yen (appx $10),
but some nice stuff.

Prices were way up, I suspect because the place
was overrun with gaijin!

Check out the gaijin who bought too much
and are packing it onto their bikes! The wood
thing is a frame over which a coverlet is spread.
Then a charcoal heater in a ceramic pot was placed
under it, and you put your legs under the cover.

Nobody uses these any more. You can find the
charcoal pots at better local antique stores.

I bought too much, the airline home is gonna whack me good

on the weight unless I jettison all the clothes I brought
with me for the trip.

So at the airport, returning, I’ll be the guy wearing
baggy construction pants and 3 kimonos!

And carrying a man-purse! The luggage allowance
allows a purse as well as 2 carry-on bags.

Yikes!