October 19: There are no more cosplay zoku in Harajuku

Today we hung out with Mayumi and Takashi of Onamichi fame. They met us for lunch in Harajuku and showed us around Omotesando Hills, another Tadao Ando building (he's like all over the place).



This was Takeshita Street just opposite Harajuku station. It had all sorts of strange things like "british punk fashion", hello kitty, and "american cool."



We all went first to the meiji Jingu shrine just behind Harajuku station.



The Sato's instructed us on preparing for prayer and also how to say a prayer in the Shrine.



We were lucky enough to see three weddings at the shrine. We were told it is very expensive and mostly movie stars and musicians marry here.





Mayumi felt she should join a procession. I didn't get the picture right but she is on the end of the wedding march. Takashi and Naomi refused to join in the fun. Spoil sports.



Then on to Omotesando Hills. An up market shopping centre where I'm sure everyone was just window shopping. I think the grocery store was owned by Cartier ;o)





Naomi mucking around.



Then we said good by to our friends and hung around to see the buildings at night like the Dior building designed by SANAA, an architect duo consisting of Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa.



Tod's by Toyo Ito.





The Cartier Boutique.



Prada by Herzog and de Meuron.







This building designer has totally slipped my mind but still had a great glass front.



Then I run out of batteries. Too many big names of world architecture. I ran out of batteries.