Harajuku dreams and Shinjuku sakura

 Following up on the Yamanote line, the green line that we tourist adore, as we aimed to visit 3 landmarks on the west side (Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku), I could not resist taking them to schoolgirl mecca for some reason so we walked from Shibuya crossings to Harajuku's Takeshita-dōri. And from the get go we went into full puricula mode. We did 3 of them after having some trouble understanding what to do. They turned out superb and memorable, in the style of this one.

 And we also queued for the choux creme - churros snack at zakuzaku, which always cracks me up as it means 'me too me too' in Malagasy.

After lunch we continued on to Shinjuku to briefly check out the Metropolitan government building and its surrounding architecture.We could not really go up since we had scissors with us but the sunset casting its orange lighting was pretty enough.

Luckily for us as well we got to see our first sakura in the sunset, amidst a concrete forest.

Soon it was time to go back our hotel to grab our things and take our first Shinkansen leaving the eastern capital for Kanazawa, on the west coast of Honshu island. The shinkansen route was new that year and took 3hours.