9am, rain

It's cold and rainy and wet and stuff outside. And it's sunday, which would normally entaiil a visit to Harajuku. But who knows, perhaps the rain ends before I head off, else it might just be alot of walking in rain today... It's also the last sunday I'll be spending fully in Tokyo since the next sunday will be in Fukuoka to the south, and then the next one I'll be coming back to Tokyo from Osaka. Thankfully the net is full of pictures from Harajuku so even if there's nothing happening this sunday there's a bunch of pictures out there.

Yesterday was some architecture students final thesis presentations in daikanyama which is sort of a nice hillside area with lots of small houses and shops and stuff. The architecture dudes did great powerpoint presentations in japanese so I understood just about 2 words, but all their models for their stuff were also out so atleast there was something to look at. After that it was off to the suburbs, Kichijoji or something and another smaller suburb out to the west of Tokyo. Although some might debate whether something's a suburb if it looks and feels like you're in one of Tokyos 10 or so citycentres and the whole way to the place just looks the same, houses houses and more houses.... Lots of people, lots of shops, and the occasional temple in the middle of it all, almost deserted and a nice silent place somehow weirdly disconnected from the whole shopping frenzy going on just meters away.

Oh well, time to plan the next important move, where to buy one of those shiny seethrough umbrellas which everyone here seems to own for days like these, I shall be back later, ttyl.