Day 15 and 16 --- A Good Weekend

This is my 3rd weekend in Tokyo, 1st weekend was more of settling down and getting to know the place. 2nd weekend I was like sick and slept through it, so this is the third and I will be ROAMING around. haha!!

So I was supposed to go to a colleague's place for BBQ. But before that, had been coughing quite badly for a week, feared that it might worsen to something bad, so I went to see doctor in the morning. The way they operate is that you will go for consultation with the doctor, he told you what medicine you would need and you will go to the pharmacy which is another place, to purchase the medicine. Anyway, the doctor is more 細心 here, I told him I'm coughing for a week and he checked everything, saw my nostrils, my ears, clear two big earwax for me, see the throat and scan my lung. Together with the medicine, it cost me S$180+. Very expensive. Don't get sick in Japan. So these are the medicines, just like what you see on TV, Japanese style.
After that, took the train to my colleague's place, which is near Yokohama. Would need to change train 3 times before getting to the station. The interchange is at Shinagawa and Kawasaki. The shinagawa station has 26 platforms, super confusing.

When I reached the station, slowly walked to his place. And saw kids playing baseball. So Japan.
At my colleague's place, his wife prepared Japanese style food for us. really very nice. And we have the 燒肉(BBQ) in japanese style. Anyway it's a very good meal. And for the rest of the day, we were playing Wii at his place cos it had been raining very heavily outside. Played until 2230 and left, reached home was already 2330. washed up sleep.

Sunday morning woke up and went to Tokyo Union Church. Missed service the previous week due to illness so ya, this is my second time there. After that, contacted and met junsheng, they left their luggage at my place, had simple lunch and we head to Harajuku to see the cosplay pple.
So there is this bridge(神宮橋) where all the cosplay pple will hangout on weekend.

ya, so to me these pple are weirdos and nothing better to do. But I think they really put in a lot of effort making up, so decided to take a few photos with them. ya. Anyway I am wearing the same clothes as the one I went to Tokyo Tower, cos it seems like the only casual shirt I have, so since it's sunday and supposed to dress nicer for church, so it's this shirt again. Who cares... Anyway, some photos of the cosplay pple.
Second from the right is Junsheng, he thought the one will silver hair is damn cool, so he took a photo with this gang.
Dunno whether cant zoom the picture or not. I think the girl in black at the center is actually quite chio. Below photo that girl is supposed to be quite cute, but then dunno why appear not so good in the photo.
Like very chubby and swollen like that. Ya, we realised that actually the photo of these cosplay pple without us are better. So a photo of them without us inside.
Can see the effort they put into dressing up. After that, we walked down the Harajuku to Omote-sando. Junsheng's gf is an architecture student and she said that the Prada shop in Harajuku is a very famous building is the architecture world. That's why we were heading there. This is the Prada Glass-house.
After visiting this place, we went back to the Harajuku station and follow the train track to Shibuya which is 1 stop away. Anyway on the way to Shibuya, saw a group of Elvis crazy, all comb the aeroplane hairstyle and jamming in front of a park. They got there by some Harley and stupid cars also. Some photos.
Just don't understand why there are so many such type of funny things in Japan. Their culture. Very soon, we've reached Shibuya. There are really a lot of chiobus in Shibuya, but then dunno how to take picture of them... So, just dream about it. haha. But this is Shibuya.
Look nice right?
Can see the Shibuya 109 building? This definitely look very japanese. I think this place is one of Tokyo's landmark. The 109 building is the one at the center of the photo, red numbers. Inside that building, the girls really wear very short skirts, really alot of pretty girls.

So had a rest at some coffee place and head back to the station.
The dog below is the so-called guardian of Shibuya. Can check the story at wikipedia.
So we took the train to Shinjuku for the night. YEAH! 3 stops away. Went to this place called Omoide-yokochou(memory lane) aka piss alley for dinner. Ate Yakitori again, yaohui's favourite.
So the green signboard above is the kanji for Omoide-yokochou. Below is the food. Junsheng ordered beer which is 600yen, AND IT IS 1 BOTTLE. CHEAP!!

After dinner, just walked around. Went to 歌舞伎町 (kabukichou), which is supposed to be the red-light district. But it is really safe there, can see family walking there as well. Not as erxin as geylang.

It's mainly a normal street with eateries and shops. Of course those dirty one as well, but as long as you don't enter those shops, nothing is going to happen to you. Anyway more photos from Shinjuku, another landmark of Toyko.
And the below photo is the 9 floor kinokuniya that i was talking about previously. Cannot get the angle correct, so ya, just the signboard.
A nice weekend. 3rd week of internship ahead. Ganbatte!!