Here comes a long overdue update !
Last week my mother was here in Tokyo for a vacation. Three days were national holiday, I got two more off and spent the whole week to spend with her.
This string of holidays is called Golden Week here in Japan. It’s a yearly recurrence that most Japanese use to take a trip to somewhere. My mother didn’t know that, but somehow managed to improvise with good timing. Actually it’s quite possible that the running travel ticket costs led her to pick those dates. Coming when most of the traffic is going out and leaving when most of the traffic is coming back in, must have an influence on availability and price.
My mom’s plan was to came to relax.. thus there wasn’t any particular intent to overtake any major touristic action. It was her third time, so she was relatively independent. Still, I did spend quite a bit of time with her, following her shopping sprees. An all-around exhausting experience !
Shopping for cute stuff is, first of all, quite boring, it also requires a lot of walking and standing. To make matters worse, fashion shops are filled with hot chicks ! Either working there or just shopping.

There is about a billion hot girls (at least from behind 8) in the Shibuya area alone. Mini-skirts are as popoular as ever, but this year over-knee stockings are also hip.. which adds ever more fuel to the fire ! (BTW, my mother took those pictures.. it would have been too weird if I did.. 8)
It’s not very sensible to tell those things straight out, but I’d be an hypocrite if I didn’t. Every time I see a couple of foreigners visiting Tokyo, I pity them a little bit.. because it’s obvious that the man is like a kid in a candy store (although my mother made me notice that there actually is some interesting “material” for women as well). It’s true that there is a relatively high quantity of complicated mouths and orthopedic challenged people, but as generations go by, there are more and more nice legs and fine mouths. Also, teeth can be fixed and some orthopedic defects can result appealing (inward bent knees are cute to many).
The morale of all this is that there is a lot of fish in the sea.. so to speak. In Tokyo it’s easier to notice because those fish put more effort in dressing up, and also seem to be more free to swim around half-naked without the fear of being eaten alive. It comes to think that this evening I had lots of sashimi (raw fish) with rice for dinner.. raw fish is raw fish.. but it’s different when it’s fresh, clean and nicely cut ..woo !!!

Posted by Davide Pasca in Diary, Japan