Chillin` near Harajuku

Yello everybody,

This morning I left the Sakura Hostel in Asakusa, went and found the exact location of my bus for tonight and deposited my large bag in baggage storage(unfortunately only open until 6pm). I then went by subway to Yoyogi-koen, near Harajuku, it`s a massive park famous for it`s diverse cultural activities. There were many live acts along the paths and streets, some sort of regae festival, people with drums and practising performance arts. Later I found the rockabilly men, people who basically seem to live a breath the movie `Grease` with leather jackets, motorcycles, old american cars, and doing coreographed dances to 50`s music(very entertaining), they also have massive permed hair. Later still I found the group which was my main reason for going, the Cos-play-Zoku. They are an interesting group of mainly youngish people(high school and older, for the most part all girls, who on the weekends get dressed up in cosplay(costume play, dressing up as a character) and hang out near harajuku posing for all the people who come past. The appearance is mainly gothic lolita but there were some variations including a girl dressed up as a elementary school students(uniform hat bag lollypop) a girl in a suit with bunny ears(bunny being Usagi in japanese, ears being Mimi, making them Usagi Mimi), some hard core punkish girls and others. All very interesting and they had quite a large crowd gathered just to photograph them.

After Harajuku, I went over to shibuya looked around and ended up posting this at an internet cafe located above the big HMV building.

The picture today is just a simple shot of one of the more simple cos-play-zoku girls.

Anyway tonight i`m going to have to pick up my bag, wait and catch my overnight bus and then i`ll be of to Nagoya to pick up my final pay(woohoo, spending money).

EDIT: found a wireless connection, the other pictures are all uploaded on my facebook. My camera is again on the fritz, it took 1 shot and then died, i'm seriously thinking about getting a new one after I get paid(not top of the range but a decent brand decent quality small digital camera), luckily my camera has a 2 megapixel camera which takes decent quality shots, so at least I can take pictures.