Posts Tagged ‘Shibuya’

Tokyo Toy Shops – 2 of 4 : Harajuku & Shibuya

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Along Omotesando-dori lies Kiddy Land. A building full of various toys for all ages. With the top floor holding mainly action figures, 12 inch figures and other stuff.

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The shelfs in Kiddy Land are kept pretty up to date. You’ll find current stuff here.

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Along Cat Street is a small shop called AstroMike. Selling some vintage 80s & 90s toys as well as current toys. Pretty good to find some rare and old stuff.

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Nearby Harajuku is Shibuya and Mandarake can be found there. Refer to the map below. From the pic of the entrance above, the stairs lead down to B2 where you will find the shop. It’s a pretty huge underground space with lots of anime dvds, manga and toys. Though the toy selection may not be as big as other places, I have found some hard-to-find stuff there in my past two trips. Good for Transformers, Macross, Gundam, small range of 12 inch figures and Otaku stuff.

I’ve added some pics of how it looks down there. Pretty cool underground toy shop. :)

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Tokyo – Day 2 of 9 : Harajuku, Shibuya

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The day started at Harajuku with me and Jas braving the mass of people. From Harajuku we walked to Shibuya. It was a long day of shopping and eating. heh.

First up was the crape in Harajuku, I previously tried this 2 years ago and it was lovely then. So I had to grab another one when I saw the stall was still around. Strawberry crape. Nice…. The whipped cream is deadly! So so rich.

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The thing about Japan is that there are so many weird and wonderful things to see. I came across this shop which had the cutest matches,,,, with faces!! Would you even want to light one and burn them up? lol

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No trip to Shibuya would be incomplete without two pictures, one of the famous Shibuya Crossing, the largest and busiest pedestrian crossing in the world.

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And the other pic would be a pic of Shibuya from the crossing at night.

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After a tiring day, the best ending would be great food. Jas and I walked around the streets of Shinjuku and saw a Yakiniku restaurant that looked good the night before. So tonight we went there. From the pic you’ll see it’s a smokey place. It’s in one of the back streets that it’s almost impossible for me to give you accurate directions to the place.

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The food was simply excellent! I love eating Yakiniku back home in Singapore, Robertson Quay and Holland Village both have good places. But this little place in Shinjuku was awesome! The food was good quality and cheap! And the atmosphere was second to none! Small, smoky and full of Japs! We’re definitely going back there before the trip is over.

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