16-10-2011 Harajuku

Sorry for the blog delay, but I have been super tired every evening.

Pictures by: Hennie Ummels

So this day after sleeping in we went to Harajuku.
I think I saw around 10 lolita's that day.
But had no chance to take a picture.

We took lunch at a café at Takeshita dori.

It was very good!

 After lunch we took a walk around Harajuku.

We also went to the Softbank store, because I had to recharge my Japanese phone.

The infamous Kebab store in Harajuku, last year we ate there, it was pretty good.

Takoyaki shop in a side street of Takeshite dori, too bad I was not hungry at that time.

When we took a little time to sit down in a back street of Harajuku, 

this girl was doing her make-up.

Me looking over Harajuku.

Our dinner, it was super good!

Back in Shinjuku.

 Signing of with a crazy picture, I got this Hello Kitty Halloween glasses at Laforet,
they have a special collaboration with several brands right now.

I got the pink ring, it is by Angelic Pretty.
 

Third Japan trip: Day 2: 20-03-2009

Today we woke up at 6, we just couldn't sleep any more.
After breakfast we went to Shinsaibashi to get some drinks at Starbucks.



After we waited for a bit for the shops to open we went to
Baby the stars shine bright and a second hand shop.


The second hand shop had loads of good lolita items! 
(located on 2f in this building, in the evening the white boards are purple)


I bought Baby the stars shine bright shoes, Angelic pretty socks and a Qutie Frash top.

After this we went to the Hello Kitty shop where I bought a new wallet,
I buy there every time that I am in Japan at least 1.
Also I bought rain boots, you don't have them like that in The Netherlands.




After this we went back to the hotel and we went to the Nipponbashi Cosplay parade.


After having no clue where it was, we found it and my boyfriend took some pictures.
There were so many scary guys cosplaying as girls.
Luckily there were also a lot of girls who looked great!
After a while we got tired and went back to the hotel and slept for 2 hours.

 



















Then we went back to Shinsaibashi where we visited Innocent World and Atelier Pierrot.
OMG Atelier Pierrot has such pretty stuff, but so expensive, the staff there is great!

Also we went to Qutie Frash where I bought a skirt, corset and belt set.
Back home I already have a matching kimono top ^^ 

(you can see the skirt set in the picture, it is without the leg warmers)


In a book store I got 2 books, Gothic lolita bible and the new Alice a la mode.
And in a department store I got 3 tights from Vivienne Westwood and 1 from Burberry. 



We had dinner at the so called Italian place at the Big Step, the food is good there!!









Pictures by: Hennie Ummels

First Japan trip: Osaka - Shinsaibashi - Day 10: 5-01-2006

Today I had a business meeting with Victorian Maiden.
Kimika from Victorian Maiden who can speak good English picked me up
at Osaka business park station, funny a English station name.
(At the moment we don't sell this brand any more, because the sizes were too small) 


First we went to the office, there the trade advisor from Osaka joined us,
a very nice man, who spoke a bit English.
We've discussed the business, the main thing is that we now really
can expect the first order around the end of January.
The conversation was very relaxed, it went about almost everything..
After this we went to the shop that was in the same building only a few floors down,
the shop was as little as mine, it was very antique like decorated! I like that a lot!
I could see all the clothings, and I also tried some things on,
I was kind of amazed that I fit in some things.
On the hand of that I order some items.
It was very nice to know the real sizes.
Also I bought a pair of gloves, brown leather ones with rabbit fur, very very soft!
I keep those for my self because it is cold in Japan right now.
I also asked them why they use foreign looking girls in their advertisement.
But they didn't had a real answer to it, mainly it comes to like it is their image.
I think those girls must be very skinny.
But now they saw me and I told I am like average size in Holland,
only I am a bit shorter, they are going to examine if they can make clothing that we would fit .
( in the end they changed nothing in their sizes)
I've spend around the 3 hours there.
After this, I said goodbye to Kimika and the man escorted me back to the station
where my hotel is, he had to go one station further. Such lovely people.
I was back in the hotel around 17.30 where my boyfriend still was,
he had spend the day exploring the neighbourhood and surfing the internet.
Together we went again to Shinsaibashi first to the Sanrio gallery shop,
but I didn't saw something that I really wanted.

Oh my, she is bigger then me.


after that we went back again to the little dining place like yesterday, I took the same.
On the picture it looks kind of weird.






Pictures by: Hennie Ummels

After this we also went to the Starbucks, I got something with marshmallows and caraml.
When we went to the station we passed a book shop,
there I bought another Gothic lolita bible 19 and also I bought this book:


At Victorian Maiden they had also that book, and after I saw it I really wanted it.

First Japan trip Day 5 - Tokyo and Shinjuku - 31-12-2005

Today we had a sightseeing day!


First we went to Tokyo central station,
that was build on the hand of central station Amsterdam, The Netherlands


In the station there were a lot of shops and stands,
even this one with Hello Kitty food items.
The cat ear hat I am wearing is from Heart E.


Picture from the front of the station,
I'm not really sure if it really looks like the station in Amsterdam,
since the station is being renovated already for a few years.
(and it still is, 6 years further now)


After walking a bit around we went to Shinjuku to see the governments building.
A lot of high buildings are located there.


Nice decoration across the street of the building.


After this we went back to the station to the underground mall,
here we found a nice noodle restaurant.
The menu was unreadable,
but pointing in the showing window helped a lot with orderin.


In the front the food of my boyfriend and I had noodle soup with vegetables.
It was very tasty!


later we went to Kamiyacho, Tokyo Tower,
on our way to that there was a girl dressed up in Kimono,
I think it is very brave to walk on those shoes,
because the street was very steep there!


Of course the Tokyo tower had to be a little bit higher than the one in Paris.
Only 13 meters haha.. not much!


We went up to the main observatory,
here is a picture of the view, the view was very nice!


I think because it was new years eve it was very busy!

We went down one floor and had some coffee and a piece of chocolate cake very yummy!!
On a other floor we had some ice cream!!! Oh my I ate too much!

Now we went back to our hotel.


It is now 23:12 so it is here almost new year!!!!!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
I'm going to finish my Vieux (Dutch alcoholic) x cola
and celebrate the new year with my boyfriend!


Pictures by: Hennie Ummels