Akihabara

Today I went to Tokyo's electronics/anime sales district, Akihabara. One of the girls from church was heading going over for a Bible study and since I wasn't doing anything she invited me to tag along.

We browesed through the electronics stores and strolled past the many, many phone shops representing the three main wireless companies, Docomo, Au and Vodafone. I think I'm going to break down and actually pic up a phone. It is becoming apparent that a cell phone is practically a necessity here in the tangled web of trains, subways bus lines and gargantuan crowds that form modern Tokyo. Au offers a student plan that runs about 1500 yen a month with free text messaging to all Au users (and since they're the ones with the cheap student plan thats what most students have).

After looking through the shops I found little evidence for the great deals people rave about. I could find almost any electronic device I want for cheaper in the U.S.


On the other hand they have a five story Don Quixote there and a couple hundred yen stores. I bought a measuring cup so that I can get my rice to come out consistently, three packs of instant curry, a can of pineapple (because fresh fruit here is astronomically expensive) and a bottle of peach Calpis which I consumed a few minutes after leaving the store.

While in Akihabara I dove into Japanese cuisine, ordering a hot dog at the combini (a Seven Eleven it just so happened) and a cheeseburger at McDonalds.

After shopping I went to a bible study. The pastor talked about divine healing and told about some of the miracles he had witnessed it was pretty cool.

Althogether, including train costs I spent 1515 yen today.