Day 7 - Yodobashi Camera
It was fun to take Ang and Megan to Yodobashi Camera, which is 8 floors of Japanese-style high-tech and toys. The other girls opted for a quiet day at home, but the three of us hopped a train to Kichijoji after rush hour was over. The store is a sensory overload with music and video games blaring from all sides, but there's some pretty cool stuff to see, including a $1200 rice cooker. Not sure why it's so expensive -- maybe it cleans the kitchen or turns rice into gold???? I'm not a gadget/gear hound at all, but browsing the floors of Yodobashi is pretty fun. I imagine a tech guy would be in heaven.
Meg enjoyed having us to herself for a couple hours and learned how to buy train tickets and navigate the stations a bit. We got lunch at a Chinese restaurant on the 8th floor and Megan is being way more brave with new foods here than she is at home. I guess there's hope for her yet.
On the way home, we checked out some shops along Harmonica Yokocho, a warren of narrow alleys that originally was a post-war black market. Today there are book stores and hip clothing stores and 100 yen stores. There's a cat cafe that we were going to check out until we learned that it was about $10 a person just for admission before buying any of the overpriced food. Cats are fine and all, but looking at them while sipping hot cocoa is not worth $60+ to me.
After we got home, Isa and I took bikes to the grocery store. No one wears helmets while riding everyday bikes (only road cyclists wear them) in Japan, and it made me remember riding bikes all over Park City as a kid. We would have laughed at anyone wearing a helmet. Granted, PC doesn't have 30 million residents, but Japanese drivers really do watch out for bikes that are everywhere, so we just went with the flow. We restocked the fridge and will be experimenting with katsudon this week. Isa was a great help..... the smaller bike had bigger baskets, so she had to ride home with a heavy bike and did a great job.
日本では買い物でも面白い---でも高いよ！
Meg enjoyed having us to herself for a couple hours and learned how to buy train tickets and navigate the stations a bit. We got lunch at a Chinese restaurant on the 8th floor and Megan is being way more brave with new foods here than she is at home. I guess there's hope for her yet.
On the way home, we checked out some shops along Harmonica Yokocho, a warren of narrow alleys that originally was a post-war black market. Today there are book stores and hip clothing stores and 100 yen stores. There's a cat cafe that we were going to check out until we learned that it was about $10 a person just for admission before buying any of the overpriced food. Cats are fine and all, but looking at them while sipping hot cocoa is not worth $60+ to me.
After we got home, Isa and I took bikes to the grocery store. No one wears helmets while riding everyday bikes (only road cyclists wear them) in Japan, and it made me remember riding bikes all over Park City as a kid. We would have laughed at anyone wearing a helmet. Granted, PC doesn't have 30 million residents, but Japanese drivers really do watch out for bikes that are everywhere, so we just went with the flow. We restocked the fridge and will be experimenting with katsudon this week. Isa was a great help..... the smaller bike had bigger baskets, so she had to ride home with a heavy bike and did a great job.
日本では買い物でも面白い---でも高いよ！
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