Japan Trip 2013 - Shibuya Walkabout
Shibuya can be considered as one of my favorite districts in the Tokyo Metropolitan for the night life, well at least for the limited places that I covered here. It certainly is one of the liveliest place to be in Tokyo at night compared to the other cities. Having said that, most shops here closes around 9.30pm which is quite a pity. It's only in Malaysia (& Singapore) that you really can see shops only closing at 11pm and some 12am during the weekends.It's a bit frustrating at times when you want to do last minute shoppings. :/
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For my part I returned to this place twice. First was after the cultural night at Club Camelot during the APPS 2013 conference. I decided that it was too early to go back to my hotel and decided to stay on instead of following the bus back.So there wasn't anything planned for this trip we wandered around aimlessly around the Shibuya area to have a better look. For the 2nd night here it was just a brief walk around since I was rushing to get to Shinjuku as well.
Generally, the stuff in Shibuya are expensive. We walked into the famous Shibuya 109 building and walked out after exploring a few floors, knowing the price range is completely out of our budget range. Imagine a simple shirt costing almost RM400. @@ To be fair, shopping in Japan isn't cheap to begin with (apart from UNIQLO, H&M where their prices are almost the same throughout the world. But you do get the latest fashion from UNIQLO though).
I wanted to find a shop that sells tempura since we haven't had any yet after being in Japan for a few days already. After circling the area for awhile we still could not find any tempura shop (for a decent price) and we settled for a restaurant specialising in agemono (Japanese fried food). I ordered the ebi-furai set which costed ¥720 for a huge proportion of prawns. Now this is relatively cheap even for Malaysian standards. :D
One day I will be back to enjoy coffee at this place and slowly watch the crowd go by....
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