Day 2! 15/1/10

First full day in Japan! Today we did some things we have been lusting after all year!

For breakfast we went to a coffee shop which turned out to be called "Beanus".

I think it's a pun on Beans and Venus.

Also, Chrissy ended up with hot milk instead of coffee...

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Today we decided to find Marui One Shinjuku, which is famous for all of its Gothic and Lolita shops. Unfortunately, all of the shops were for girls, so poor Charles was dragged along with nothing to look at for himself. He was very gentlemanly and let Chrissy look to her heart's content.

In Marui One Shinjuku, they have lots of brand shops: Metamorphose, Baby, Alice And The Pirates, Angelic Pretty, Emily Temple Cute, Excentrique, Moi-Meme-Moitie, Black Peace Now, H.Naoto, Atelier Boz, Jane Marple, Jesus Diamante, Kera Angel, Junie Moon (the Blythe doll shop), and lots of other little cute shops.

After a reasonably solid morning of Lolita shopping, we walked to Shinjuku station to have lunch, stopping only to visit another lolita shop, Innocent World. We ate lunch on the restaurant floor of Lumine, at a sort of upmarket donburi place. Charles had surprise shellfish in his miso soup! Christina was totally freaked out. Luckily her meal had no surprises, except for the surprisingly hot "mexi-rice".

After lunch we went to find another another lolita shop called "Closet Child" which sells second hand clothes. It was a bit depressing - hundreds of unloved BTSSB dresses, which Chrissy didn't like. Conclusion - people only sell awful lolita dresses.

We went home for a rest and then walked out to have a look for dinner. While looking for dinner we were only distracted twice, first by Muji where Chrissy bought a skirt and Charles bought some pens and then by Bic Camera where Charles bought a windscreen for his sound recorder (but he had to ask for it in Japanese first). Also lots of things in Muji were on sale, Chrissy's skirt was 70% off (!).

DINNER.

We finally found a place to eat after walking around for a long time. It was a very friendly place but we couldn't read the handwritten menu at all. The chef could speak english though, so we could order. We ate a fish, two smaller fish, a loaf of tofu and mystery beef soup. It was the nicest dinner in the world and we ate way too much.They gave us a strawberry each for dessert (^_^).

Finish!