My last night here. It's 6.30pm and a thunderstorm has started - watching it from high up in my hotel room is incredible.
Shinjuku called again today. I discovered where all the record shops are. It's ridiculous - there's so so so much available here - vinyl, CD, DVD, bootlegs which are just too tempting. Disc Union is like a more down-at-heel Fopp and luckily, all the staff speak English. I just can't get my head around why British people stopped visiting them, regardless of the digital revolution. I've missed wondering around such shops so very much.
So - some quick observations (this is all for my own benefit so I never forget what has happened here!)....anyhow:
I found a bootleg DVD of a U2 show around the time of the Vertigo tour. They called it "How to dispatch an ageing band," as opposed to the official album title, "How to dismantle an atomic bomb". I wonder if the Japanese realise how right they were in their re-naming?
I haven't heard any police sirens here. Only once an ambulance went by with its sirens less wailing, but more whispering.
Women wear Wellies in 34 degree heat as a fashion statement (they're often pink or white). The humidity is close to torture - I don't know how they do it.
People never bump into eachother (from what I can tell), which is ridiculous given its the most over-populated city on the planet. Bikes whizz by pedestrians on the pavement and no-one gets in eachother's way. It's as though they are all positive ends of magnets - creating a forceful space that can't be interrupted.
I saw a boy wearing one of those Nike "Do It" slogan t-shirts. His had the Nike logo, but it said "Don't do it." Brilliant.
Picked up some stickers in the Tokyu Hands department store: one of them says, "I was late for the cattle mutilation." Yeah, so was I......gutted.
Am looking forward to seeing the people I have missed, but this city already has a hold on me. Shame to be leaving at 8am tomorrow.
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