Today was a shopping intensive day for the tour – we had places to get to! Our first stop was Harajuku, for some shopping. Katherine and Amy started us off with a visit to Alice on Wednesday, a lovely little Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass themed store, where everyone picked up important items like parasols and jewelry. ^_^ To get in, you have to walk through a teeny-weeny little door. ^_^

Then off to the Sailor Moon store, of course. Then Kiddyland for character goods, equally of course, then lunch with a vaguely Hawaii theme. 

We then sweated our way over to Shibuya (the weather here is quite hot, unusually so after a typhoon) for the Bloom Into You popup store, which was small, but the goods were really lovely – clearly new original art. I couldn’t help myself, I bought a Sayaka t-shirt and some small items, at least a few of which will be for Lucky Boxes. ^_^

We followed this with a visit to Mandarake and Animate, where we all picked up more stuff we *totally* need. ^_^ Animate Shibuya has a small Yuribu, with a reasonable variety of multi-format items, including an original Drama CD, manga, novels and magazines.

I took some pictures, but the connection here is kinda shitty, so take a look at this link for what I’ve shared so far.

Today we’re headed down to Kamakura to do a little Aoi Hana wandering.