Shopping and karaoke in Shinjuku

Hello everybody,

I hope you all had a great sports and health day. We did! Saw quite a few people jogging today, and many streets were closed to cars, but we decided that sports day for us meant going for a walk in the Shinjuku area - an area which is mainly known for having the second largest commuter station in the world and servicing app. 3,5 mio passengers a day.



It does have more to it than that, though. Here you'll once again find a big neon-light district with huge futuristic skyscrapers, but you'll also find Tokyos notorious red light district. We didn't visit that area, but decided to just slender a little bit around checking out the shopping scene. Enough children related activities like zoo and aquarium for one weekend, now it was time to hit the shops. How great is it that you can shop on a national holiday? We were really excited to begin with, but dragging two kids around quickly takes the fun out of shopping. Except for the one mall, where they had a place for the kids to hang out - but obviously only in the kids appartment.

Villads in a 'banana tub'

Speaking of shopping and children...I don't know where people here buy clothes for children, except for Zara and Gap, I haven't seen any stores with a childrens line, except in one of those warehouses we went to yesterday, but they only had the really expensive designers. Hmmm...quite a difference to Copenhagen where almost every other shop nowadays is for kids.

Enough about shopping...instead we decided it was about time to...

...and get acquainted with Tokyos karaoke bars. We went into a random one, and it is total japanese madness. 9 floors with each 10 little rooms to rent. In each room sitting a group of friends or a couple singing. You can order food and drinks and have your own little party there. The floor we went to was completely full, and it was 3.30 PM. We were only there for an hour, mainly to have seen it. Check out the video potpourri in the next post for you to have seen it too...I obviously gave it as Britney Spears for old times sake, and speaking of sake, it could have been so much more fun if we'd had a little bit of japanese sake.


The kids weren't totally in to it - except for Kristian;-)


I think, I'll leave it at that. The videos say it all!!

Have fun!
die Reckzehs