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We met up with Jenny and her family this morning to go shopping on Takeshita Street. Harajuku is a place that I've dreamed of visiting ever since I started reading FRUiTS Magazine in University and it was just as bright and colourful as I imagined. Jenny told us to take a second look at the street name as I'd been too distracted by the amazing balloon art to notice the joke in Takeshita which means under the bamboo in Japanese.
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As I'd expected, Harajuku was a lot like Camden and filled with shops selling crazy fashion and accessories. Though we spotted some adorable lolita outfits, noone was dressed as colourfully as they used to be in FRUiTS. Jenny told me that they've banned everyone from getting dressed up and meeting on the bridge where the used to hang out on the weekends.
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I got a little keyring of a vomiting cat from a vending machine which was filled entirely with cats throwing up vomit in every colour of the rainbow.
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We then went for lunch at the Alice In Wonderland Restaurant which I had read about and couldn't wait to check out. There are a few of them around Tokyo but the Shibuya one was nice and close so we walked to that.
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It was really pretty inside with spinning clocks, carousel tables and waitresses dressed like Alice.
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Even our food was themed and my parfait looked like a Cheshire Cat.
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