Craft Shopping?

Prior to coming here Melissa had been reading up on all sorts of craft blogs - because you know, Japanese people have rich history full of crafts. She didn't have illusions of spinning silk for kimonos or fashioning a sword, but rather partaking in the new "kawaii" style of doing things. Because of this we thought it best to devote a day to searching through craft stores, but things didn't quite work out that way.

There was rather large laundry list of places to go, and just as it would be, all of them were rather far apart, but thankfully connected by one train line. First on the list was a crazy super awesome store called "Kiddy Land." The name may lead you to assume that it's a pedophiles dream, but there were in fact very few kids. Instead there were a lot of cutesy toys made for the child inside of every adult. Thanks to the lack of craft materials we were on a start to a disappointing day for crafts, but a great for shopping as a whole.

Next on the list was a fabric store located near the Tokyo Parasite Museum, but sadly I was unable to find an easy route there so it was skipped in light of another fabric store called, "Tomato."

Tomato would bring us for the first time into a calm part of Tokyo, where people are free to ride bikes and the elderly can wander safely. Due to hard to follow directions we ended up wondering though the back streets, through a market, near a school, and by a really neat car park that held cars above the ground in a ferris wheel style holder. It was a nice walk eventually leading us to out destination, which as it would happen to be was - closed. Up to that point I hadn't seen a store closed durring the day, but oh well, it was a Sunday afer all.

Heading on down the line we were to visit a mega-store called "Sunshine City." At one point in time the tower was the tallest building in Tokyo, housing a five story mall, a Cold Stone Creamery, and a rooftop observatory. Once ariving there we weren't actually sure how it was in any way craft related and after getting home I'm still not sure.

The observetory was awesome though, allowing you to see really how massive of a city Tokyo is. You actually can't see to the end, a haze in the horizion prevents it, but I can imagine that even if it wasn't there you still wouldn't be able to find an end. A bad side note - when trying to walk and look out the window I tripped over a large platform used for looking through a telescope. It messed up my knee, chest, and shoulder, but I'm fine.

With all of the views that we could handle we ate some Cold Stone, tipped the server to get a song (Zippidy Doo Da), and headed on home. Once again a great day, one in which Melissa managed to find two whole store devoted to Hello Kitty.

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P.S. - for the next day we simply rested and worked on a Gundam model I purchased. You have to rest sometime, right?