{"id":2918,"date":"2009-09-10T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2009-09-01T04:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:03:55","slug":"harajuku-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/harajuku-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Harajuku &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040453trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040453trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"harajuku&#039;s takeshita street on a sunday\" title=\"harajuku&#039;s takeshita street on a sunday\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040453trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040453trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040453trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u7af9\u4e0b\u901a\u308a in \u539f\u5bbf on a Sunday is interesting to see once. I can&#8217;t imagine wanting to ever walk down it again though&#8211;at least not in the heat and humidity that we encountered on this day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040457trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040457trim-488x800.jpg\" alt=\"birkenstock harajuku japan  tokyo\" title=\"birkenstock harajuku japan  tokyo\" width=\"488\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040457trim-488x800.jpg 488w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040457trim-152x250.jpg 152w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040457trim.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can pretty much point your camera in any direction while in Harajuku and be able to photograph something interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040458trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040458trim-501x800.jpg\" alt=\"harajuku tokyo japan blimp\" title=\"harajuku tokyo japan blimp\" width=\"501\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040458trim-501x800.jpg 501w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040458trim-156x250.jpg 156w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040458trim.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I pointed mine at the sky and a blimp flew by.<\/p>\n<p>We picked up <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/japanese-birthday-party\/>Maya&#8217;s birthday present<\/a> in Harajuku at a place called <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/kiddy-land-\u30ad\u30c7\u30a4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9-harajuku-\u539f\u5bbf-tokyo\/>Kiddy Land<\/a>. I asked Maya if she went to Harajuku (or Shinjuku or Takadanobaba) much. She said she hopes to go there someday which surprised me. We go through Harajuku nearly daily as foreigners living in Tokyo, yet a Tokyo native who lives 20 minutes to the east has never been there. Sure she is only 11, but it reminded me that we frequently miss the things in our own backyard. <\/p>\n<p>As a kid who grew up just across the bay from San Francisco I remember thinking how rarely we ever went to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/mfr-to-sfo\/>San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u7af9\u4e0b\u901a\u308a in \u539f\u5bbf on a Sunday is interesting to see once. I can&#8217;t imagine wanting to ever walk down it again though&#8211;at least not in the heat and humidity that we encountered on this day. You can pretty much point your camera in any direction while in Harajuku and be able to photograph something interesting. 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