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Arrived at Asakusa Kannon Temple.
And apparently mom took a photo of me with it. x3 Oh well, why not.
One of those cool Koi flags and some building behind it.
Apparently breathing the smoke was good luck or made you purer or something, so people kept breathing it here.
The latter one is kinda blasphemy as we're far from Buddhist, but it was a good photo so I wanted to share it with you.
At this point I wanted to try one of those prayers you see in manga, so I went and prayed for success in those big school
examinations I have coming. However, the answer didn't promise well. (Here you can see it from the other side.)
...So I tied it to the fence thing to neutralize it. I'm actually kinda glad I got a bad fortune so I got to do this part too.
Koi flags again.
Next to the temple was a shopping lane Nakamise...
...where I found the cutest cookies ever, "Maid Cookies". x3 (You'll get a better photo of them later.)
Mom went to buy water, so I spent time taking photos of this statue. Don't know who he is, but he's grumpy.
The lady working for the bus company had a cute uniform.
...Then we ran to the subway station and headed for Akihabara for some otaku shopping. >:3 Here's a random sign from the station.
A maid cafe advertisement. N'aww.
In Akihabara, even garbage cans are anime related. XD (I felt like such a tourist taking photos of garbage cans, mom even suggested that
I go stand behind them but that was a bit too much even for me. XD)
A Kona that leapt through time~ ♥
Of course I also have a photo of me standing behind the "I ♥ Akihabara" sign (mom made me), but that I won't show you. XP The small
text next to the guy in the picture says "Cool Old Dude" in English, by the way. XD
I encountered a pachinko place for the first time. I'm telling you, if you haven't been to one of those you can't possible imagine the
noise, it's so loud your ears don't really even recognize it as a noise anymore and it was almost physically painful. There's no way that
could be in health regulation limits. >_o
(Oh, and as you can see this place was Evangelion themed. And no, I didn't know mom was taking photos.)
There was also a life-size Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley inside, it's too bad the photos didn't turn out too well (didn't know if photos
were allowed so had to take them quickly).
Getting to know the local food culture, aka McDonald's. XD What, you actually thought I could live a week without hamburgers?
I don't have much photos of otaku places in Akihabara as photos weren't allowed there, so I concentrated on shopping instead of
photographing. x3 One more look at Akihabara and it's time to leave for the station.
On our way we found a Heidi Club though.
