Alex and I headed for Shibuya which has the mad five way crossing that everyone associates with Tokyo. We went all over the shops which were insane. Particularly Shibuya109 which is where you go if you want to dress like 109 different insane teenagers.
It's like teenagers laid out the store and chose all the stock and music for it. If there was at any point in the creation of it a person who said, "Do you think that might be enough if we have four different soundtracks blasting at full bore and maybe we could have a wall which is just plain-ish, maybe without 17 frills on it?" then that person received an emphatic, "No thank you."
In the various department shops we visited, the floors all had various synonym names (ladies casual, ladies street casual, ladies fashion, casual ladies street fashion) which may to some expert observer meant different things but to us just seemed to be different brands of just plain crazy.
Some of our favourite shops were:
and
which despite their names, merely sold casual young women's clothing.
Having built up quite a thirst, we toddled along to the beer museum in Ebisu which had very few English subtitles but did have a room filled with various beer ads:
(Beer, so classy it's almost like a martini)
a giant beer can and a beer tasting hall:
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