You should definitely visit the secondhand shop "Chicago" while you're in Harajuku - it's fairly inexpensive and has a lot of weird stuff.
I strongly advise going to Ryougoku, the sumo district. It boasts:
1) Many restaurants that serve chanko nabe. That's the stuff that sumo wrestlers eat to bulk themselves up, which contains anywhere from four to fourteen kinds of meat. (Do not attempt to eat the chanko nabe alone. It is a task requiring at least two participants.)
2) A nice landscape garden, Kyu-Yasuda Teien - it's not as spectacular as Rikugien or Koishikawa Kourakuen (my favorites), but it's just a block from the station and free to enter.
3) The Edo-Tokyo Museum, also right by the station. A lot of reproductions of Edo-era homes and streets. (The kabuki exhibit struck me as awfully sanitized, though...)
4) The sumo stadium, but that actually didn't interest me as much as the rest of it?
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Sat, Jul. 31st, 2010 07:17 pm (UTC)I strongly advise going to Ryougoku, the sumo district. It boasts:
1) Many restaurants that serve chanko nabe. That's the stuff that sumo wrestlers eat to bulk themselves up, which contains anywhere from four to fourteen kinds of meat. (Do not attempt to eat the chanko nabe alone. It is a task requiring at least two participants.)
2) A nice landscape garden, Kyu-Yasuda Teien - it's not as spectacular as Rikugien or Koishikawa Kourakuen (my favorites), but it's just a block from the station and free to enter.
3) The Edo-Tokyo Museum, also right by the station. A lot of reproductions of Edo-era homes and streets. (The kabuki exhibit struck me as awfully sanitized, though...)
4) The sumo stadium, but that actually didn't interest me as much as the rest of it?