• Shibuya crossing

    March 29, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    While walking towards Shibuya, we split up yet again. Purva and her mom went inside a clothes store, while the rest of us continued to walk along the high street towards the scramble crossing. The route was super interesting. We noticed buildings with weird architecture, groups of mini-karts on the roads, women with eccentric hairstyle and fashion sense (we think these might have been the “Harajuku girls” we knew of via Youtube videos about Tokyo but we could be wrong) and some unique shops. We dropped our parents to a shopping centre called Loft and headed onwards to the famous Shibuya crossing - where every other minute, thousands of people cross the road in all directions simultaneously. We crossed it ourselves twice before heading to the Shibuya station and resting in a cafe. Everybody else eventually joined us at the station and everyone was tired enough that we decided to get back to the hotel.Read more