Electric Town

We were finally able to fully experience the truly wacky, weird side of Japanese culture with our visit to Akihabara on Thursday night. We visited the "electric town" side of akihabara once again, and at night time it is even crazier - just overwhelming with all it's flashing lights, spruikers and loud noises. After visiting a 7-floor Sega arcade and playing lots of dance dance revolution, we were persuaded by the army of girls (and drag queens) dressed as maids spruiking all over the streets to visit a Maid cafe for some dinner. I don't think it's actually possible to give you an accurate picture of the weirdness of a maid cafe in a simple blogpost, suffice to say that we were referred to as "Master" and "Senorita", and that the person next to us ordering a cocktail prompted the lights to dim and the maids to begin a 5 minute choreographed song and dance routine just to shake the cocktail. We ordered for dinner bizzare animal shaped parfaits (for which we had to do a little dance and song for before we were allowed to eat) and for most of our time there sat in bewildered and amused silence. After that strange experience, we wandered into a 6-level late night variety store filled with nothing but junk you wouldn't need, from a butt-shaped pen holder to a hello kitty humidifier. If you can imagine it, and you know you don't need it, it was in this store. So anyway, we of course both bought something, and then said goodbye to akihabara for the night, although not before passing by a huge AKB48 themed cafe, restaurant and shop (more about the phenomena that is AKB48 to come).

Still cannot get our photos from the camera to the computer sorry, so here are some more photobooth photos which I took photos of on my mobile. (We do do much more than take photobooth photos, just by the way, its just that these are the best pictures I have on my mobile camera)

Lots of love to you all
Annika