edit: as pointed out by my esteemed sister, it was not Shinjuku, it was actually the Ginza district.

I forgot to mention that I also visited the area called Shinjuku Ginza and revisited Akihabara on saturday.  That would’ve placed it after the Tsukiji Fish Market, and before the night of clubbing.

Shinjuku Ginza is one of the more “classy” parts of town.  Go here to find the large and expensive department stores.  One of the major streets in Shinjuku Ginza was closed off and didn’t allow any motor traffic through it at all and this was a very large street, about 5 lanes accross.  This street can be considered the Rodeo drive of Tokyo.  Here you will find a Chanel store right next to the Cartier building and also within short vacinity of the Coach, LV and Gucci stores.  You can also find Tokyo’s Apple store here.  It may not be high priced like the rest of the stores, but i’m glad to see it in the district.

We didn’t spend a whole lot of time here, since everything here was well overpriced.  I looked at some Burberry golf shirts and Polo shirts priced at $250 and $200, and immediately backed away.

Shinjuku Ginza was also the place where i saw my second skyline of the trip, but Shinjuku Ginza was not the place for me.

After leaving Shinjuku Ginza, we went to Shibuya, and then went to revisit Akihabara.  I say revisit, because Carrie and I tried to see Akihabara on Thursday, the day we went to Tokyo Tower, but we got there too late, about 10:00 and everything was beginning to close, and that was the night my foot began hurting.

So we went back to see what all the fuss was about.  And there was a lot to see.  I don’t think i got to see everything i wanted to see.  I saw the electronics stores, but all the electronics were expensive.  I think Japan’s got the latest and greatest electronics, but Hong Kong’s got the best prices.

We stopped inside Club Sega, a multi-level arcade, with one floor completely dedicated to those claw machines, and another floor dedicated to a Gundam video game, and a floor all for Street Fighter 4!  Amazing!

We left Electric Town and headed back towards the hostel for dinner.  We were all starving by that time.