Meiji St. and Omotesando

I am getting mouldy. The last two weeks almost every day was rainy. Today it was a general holiday, "Sport Day" and some schools were planning on having an athletic festival, but of course they had to cancel. I was relaxing at home, yes I was a total lazy bones. Finally I will begin to cook something for dinner. Since it is cold today, maybe I will cook hot Korean soup and rice!!

Yesterday I did not finish to write about  Harajuku, so I will finish it today.
Meiji street connects Harajuku with Shibuya. Comparing it to Takeshita street, along the Meiji street, there are big stores, major brands shop like Beams, Anap, UNIQLO etc,.  But  the landmark of Meiji street would be Laforet Harajuku. Laforet Harajuku opened in 1978, then they have been always a face of Harajuku because of their cool sense. Recently Nagi Noda works for them as their art director. She is the designer of Hanpanda (irony for popularity of giant Panda? Maybe) . I like her creations like this and this.   Laforet has art galleries, Laforet Museum, Lapnet ship, Lapnet club. A recent event in Laforet Museum was a movie NANA (popular manga), Lapnet ship had Furi Furi company's (art design group) exhibition. Please check their site, it's very pop Japanese taste. Lapnet Club has events of Nostalgic Perler, they have cute beads arts. (check gallery page)

Omodesando connect Harajuku and Aoyama area. Along the street, there are Dior, Tods, such luxury boutiques. And next year Mori building will build a new land mark to Omotesando "Omotesando Hills". Comparing it to Takeshita street, people walking around there are more sophisticated.
Kiddy Land has a different mood in this Omotesando, but we can't talk Omotesando without Kiddy Land. Actually I heard some celebs from foreign countries visit there often. Kiddy Land is a toy store, most of all they have a huge selection of charactor items.  They say relaKuma is the most popular character in KiddyLand.  I like "Livly" which is characters of the communication web site "Livly Lsland". This is a cute video "what is Livly."

Here is the best selling toy ranking in July 2005.
1.i-dog ( cheaper version of aibo)
2.Tamagocchi  (this was boom before, then they have returned with version up)
3.Tmagoccchi Red
4.Jigorou Hand dall ( not cute, but he was character in a TV show before)
5.Puchika  (small remote car, a cell phone can work as a remote)
6.Rubic Cube
7.Flat ball (came from America )
8.Relakuma Stuffed animal (lazy bear)
9.Pettit Sample (miniature )
10.Walky Bits (turtle walk automatically, we can use cell as a remote )

Comments

[Mari]

Hi There
Yes, Dali, Sonia.
"When I'm 64!!" I want to live in Okinawa or Hawaii!

[Sonia]

You should move south - it's still hot and sunny in Kyushu! I'm a big fan of Kiddy Land, I like going there for silly birthday gifts.

[I am Dali]

where i am in america, it's been cold and grey for the last few days. rainy. today is a minor holiday though, so i don't have work. i've been sitting quietly and reading on the Web all day. lazy bones.

i might go make some tacos. i don't have much food left in the house. o_o