Not So Fickle...: Sayonara Kuji

Gosh, I left Japan. I finished my contract and thought, do I want to freeze my arse off for another winter? Not really, no. Also, my Japanish friends tell me that during the summer, which is hotter than the average British summer (not hard), this cold front comes in over Kuji, like a really heavy mist, so Kuji doesn't get much of a summer. Great! I'm off.

But never fear, I am fully stocked up on delicious trinkets to keep Not So Fickle going for a while yet. My too-cool-for-school Japanese bad-boy friend (Japan doesn't have chavs, but if they did...) drove me 2 hours to the night bus, bought me dinner, AND carried my bags before showing real life emotion and saying goodbye! It was all too much. After a suitable amount of snivelling and disturbing my fellow passengers I fell asleep somewhere in Iwate and woke up at 5.30am in Tokyo.

Rainy Tokyo, at 5.30am, btw, is probably not something you wanna be doing in a hurry. I went to the Starbucks from Lost In Translation, which is actually tiny even though from the outside it looks like the Starbucks of all Starbuckses, and what a place that would be! Then I headed to Harajuku, which eventually yawned and stretched and sprang into life about 11am.

This is Takeshita Dori, or Take a Shit Street as my sister calls it. This is where the love is. You should go here pronto.

This is one of my favourite shops. The downstairs is lush but the upstairs... it all gets a bit weird, and the number of dolls is just unhealthy.

Mickey knows what's what.

Please take off shoes. The try on is possible to 3.

Creepy. Really really creepy if you've seen Inland Empire.

Pants Shop Laa. Just a great name for a shop.

I love Not So Fickle. It's the best excuse ever for me to go shopping crazy in the shopping heaven that is Harajuku despite my evil evil 20kg baggage limit and lack of money. It's not for meeee, it's for the website! Thank you Not So Fickle, I could enjoy many many happy shopping!

And here is the result. Introducing... the Harajuku Collection!

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