After our trip to Kawasaki and Raimie meeting up with Ultraman Mebius and Zoffy, we head back to Tokyo. With the few days left in Japan allocated for shopping, we went to Shibuya for the second time of this trip.
I had an important mission that day, that was to secure a few CDs for a special blogging friend. Zaini needed to buy a big box (I mean, really really big one) to put our shopping in and wanted to look for them at Tokyu Hands. We actually found a box that meets our requirement at a shop in Kappabashi but as luck would have it, the shop was closed the day we wanted to make the purchase. With the vacation almost ending, a safe bet to find one was at Tokyu Hands and the easiest for us to reach to was the one in Shibuya taking one train at Tawaramachi station to Shibuya station on the Ginza line.
A busy intersection in Shibuya
The boys listening to some songs. We tried looking for some CDs at the smaller record shop in Asakusa but couldn't find them. Fortunately they were available at HMV and bigger stores in Shibuya.
Looking at some Ultraman DVDs. Unfortunately, we didn't buy any because if we did, we can't understand the story much. No subtitles! XD
We also had fun waching Yatterman movie trailer while in the stores.
And getting a couple of CDs
We were in Shibuya for just a couple of hours. We went back our hotel room after we purchased our big box. A huge cardboard box for just 570yen sure beats having to buy another set of luggage that cost a few thousand yen.
Zaini lugging our newly purchased box to the train platform. Tokyu Hands staff wrapped our box so nicely instead of just slapping a "PAID" sticker on the box that it looked like a present instead of just a wrapped package. One reason we love Japan so much. Excellent customer service, even if your purchase is less than 1,000yen.
We always buy boxes for our excess items that can't be fit into our existing set of luggages. That way we don't bring extra bags into Japan or have extra bags to think about while vacationing. Japan Post (JP) boxes are particularly sturdy. We still keep the boxes to put stuff in it!
In 2008, we got ourselves three JP boxes to bring back with our stuff and one of the boxes contained only Ultraman merchandise for Raimie!
It was after lunch when we head back to Asakusa. For lunch, we had sushi at Sushi Zanmai in Asakusa. I had a snack there a few days earlier, and the taste of melt-in-my mouth tuna lingered and I've been wanting to return for more sushi feast. That post, soon.
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