Aint nothin but a hound dog!

Ok so we reckon we are going out a bit to early to catch the crazy kids in their costumes and funky outfits..! We went out again today at about 11 to Shibuya and did a walk out of the guide book that was aimed at people watching. Despite it having supposedly the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world, Shibuya was pretty dead with no funky kids in sight. We went into a department store caller 109 which was just madness and we had to leave before we both went crazy!

Seeing as the walk took us to Yoyogi park again we figured we'd head there and try our luck in Harajuku again. Sunday is supposed to be the day everyone comes out to play anyway.

Got to the park and was surprised how different this part was compared to the bit by Harajuku station. All open grass with blossom trees dotted around.

It was pretty crazy, every blossom tree had a bunch of people under, chilling out, drinking booze and generally having a laugh, looked like some kind of festival but i get the feeling its like that most weekends.

We had a mill round this bit amazed at the number of people there, one tree seemed to have nothing but people in suits under it, but we still didnt see any people in costume or funky garb.

So after a bit of chilling on the benches laughing at the difference in size of dog people have we went off towards the Harajuku entrance.

This is were it started to get interesting.

We saw a bunch of people with wooden katana doing choreographed fights the most interesting were 4 guys dressed in some sort of traditional dress, but with hats on!!

A street performer doing a few juggling acts, one of which involved large knives and an apple. He also burst a surgical glove he'd put over his head!!

Mental guy singing obviously his own songs, rather badly

Woman with 4 dogs all of the same breed, all wearing coats and sunglasses! with one being special and wearing a doggy wheelchair as it had no back legs awww!!

Three groups of rock-a-billys seemingly influenced by Grease as two were biker gang looking and one (which had women in!!) looked like they were outa the japanesse happydays, only they were all (except the women!!) middle aged.
We walked past them after we got lunch in the park and they were dancing away, the happy days bunch were in fact doing routines to music from Grease.

And of course goth kids, in seemingly cosplay, normal and gothloli varieties..
there weren't that many to be honest, one group was having their photo taken by some guy who i thought might of been the dude who did the Fruits books!!! middle aged and pretty normal looking!?!?!?! and some scattered around on a bridge by the park entrance.

I didnt ask any of the kids to pose, maybe should have but there were so many tourists snapping away at them without asking i figured they were harassed enough so just went with the tourist flow...

We then ventured off into Harajuku, partly to escape the hordes filling up the park and partly to go to a shop called Kiddy Land. Basically a toy store chain. It was rather impressive, about 6 floors dedicated to different genres like a Snoopy floor and a Disney floor etc. But no Hello Kitty floor...... because everyfloor seemed to have Hello Kitty on!!! Were some impressive toys, bought a nice cheap Gundam figure and a something for a certain someone!!!!

back at the hotel now after a relatively pleasent train journey. Off to try the jap take on a burger tonight i think!!! not from McD's!!!

Some Pics below, check the Flickr page for all of todays pick. Thinking I'm not taking enough snaps so will try and rectify that for you tomorrow.

Something i'm sure certain friends will appreciate >>