Yesterday we have done some really touristy business in there. We have visited the "cool side" of Tokyo -Shibuya-, which happened to be super busy and crowded, neons and music from everywhere and anywhere. All the shops trying to catch your attention to enter inside and spend some money. Especially the famous shopping "world wide trend setting" street of Takashita. We also, of course, had to take around 20 pictures of Shibuya crossing from the first floor of Starbucks, like milion tourists before us.
That was the picture of Tokyo I knew from travel documents and which I expected since the beginning. Tokyo, from our experience, has more faces than that. For example our quarter -Asakusa- is much more calmer and with almost no people on the streets before 10 a.m., compared to Ginza or Shibuya. But I am no expert in the quarters here, we still have so many to discover.
On our metro ride back home at around 8 p.m., fully exhausted, we just asked each other, what did we actually do today that we are soo tired? Crowds, shops and people are so tiring to me.
Well, to be honest, the marketing worked well on me because it happened I was in a shop buying new jeans I wanted for a really long time. I find buying new trousers very stressful, that's why I didn't buy them earlier and was rather living without them. Silly, I know. But Shibuya travel fever got me and suddenly I really didn't want to leave without them. The funny story is that the sizes here start at 00, and the biggest size is 10. Compared to Europe where the size start, I believe, at 6 and the biggest one is 14. I felt like a giant walking pumpkin. But I am finally a happy owner of new pair of well fitting jeans. I am proud of myself I didnt buy any other unnecessary thing to carry throughout our travels, because the pressure was high. (Ok, we will not count the comics in japanese which I will never understand to but had such a cute cover I just couldn't resist and wanted it as a decoration to our bookshelf back in Prague, ok?)
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Vcerejsek jsme stravili typickymi turistickymi aktivitami v Tokyu. Zavitali jsme do trendy ctvrti Shibuya, ktera primo preteka lidmi, obchody, neony a zvuky- hudbou, ktera hraje temer vsude. Mluvi tu na vas i jezdici schody (btw vcera jsme v restauraci videli odpadkove kose, ktere se sami oteviraly). A vsechny obchudky vas lakaji do sveho nitra, abyste tam zanechali cast svych penez. Specialne ve svetozname, udajne trendy udavajici, ulicce Takashita. Take jsme samozrejme museli zastavit ve svetoznamem predrazenem Starbucksu, abychom si mohli z jejich prvniho patra vyfotit Shibuya crossing, asi jako uz milion turistu pred nami.
Tohle byl presne takovy ten obrazek, ktery jsem o Tokiu mela, predtim nez jsme sem prijeli. Tokio ma ale samozrejme mnohem vice tvari. Z vlastni zkusenosti napriklad nase ctvrt Asakusa je o hodne klidnejsi, lidmi se ulize zacnou hemzit az okolo 10. hodiny. Ctvrti Ginza a prave Shibuya jsou o moc rusnejsi. Samozrejme ale nejsem zadny odbornik, a stale jsme z Tokia videli jen velmi malou cast.
Kdyz jsme se okolo osme vecer vraceli metrem zpet do Asakusy, sami sebe jsme se ptali, z ceho ze jsme tak strasne unaveni? Davy lidi a obchody me neskutecne vycerpavaji.
Abych ale byla uplne uprimna, prodejni marketing zafungoval i na me a ja vcera hrozne nutne potrebovala koupit nove dziny. Uz je nejaky ten patek shanim, klasicke dziny, zadne totiz uz nekolik let nemam, protoze nakupovani kalhot nesnasim. Je hrozne tezke najit nejake, co sedi, a tak jsem to porad odkladala a odkladala.. zni to hloupe, ja vim. Shibuya me ale nakazila nakupni horeckou a ja proste nemohla odejit bez nich. Vtipne na tom je, ze velikosti tu zacinaji na 00, nejvetsi velikost je 10. V porovnani s Evropou, kde je tusim standardne nejmensi 6 a nejvetsi 14. Pripadala jsem si jako velka chodici dyne. Ale vse dobre dopadlo, a jsem stastnym vlastnikem novych dzin, ktere jsem uz dlouho chtela. Jsem na sebe pysna, ze jsem v te zaplave zbozi nekoupila nakou jinou blbost. (Ten komiks v japonstine, kteremu nikdy nebudu rozumet, ale ktery mel tak krasnou obalku a bude na nasi knihovnicce v Praze super dekoraci, ten pocitat nebudeme, ok?)