Today I traveled back to Akihabara with the intention of completing my souvenir shopping. I had three people left to shop for and I was going to shop until I was at zero. So I had a ramen brunch and then headed on over. This time it was an easier trip since I have a better feel for the trains and was able to avoid getting on the wrong ones, or getting out at the wrong station.
I wandered to a few new places that I had not visited the last time I was here and even wandered further into the smaller streets, finding myself almost lost a couple of times but also seeing some cute stores and homes. Even a small traditional looking building that I am not sure what it is used for.
I still struggled with gift ideas though. Hard to shop when you either cannot find what you want, or have no idea what you want. I did find a McDonald’s next door to a Burger King which I felt was a little American. The line up out the door for the McDonald’s was not though. At one point I found a lot of Pokemon Go players all hanging out. I guess it is still very popular here.
It was a really hot day, very sunny, but I really enjoyed the walk around. I visited a Starbucks for cake and ‘coffee’ which was not really coffee as much as liquid vanilla ice cream. And I visited another coffee shop later for a perrier over fruit and ice. That was delicious.
In the end I was only able to find one of the three gifts I still needed to buy, but I was successful in figuring out what I still needed to get and developed a game plan for tomorrow. So more shopping again. And back to Ikebukuro.
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