We only had one day in Tokyo as we planned to explore Kyoto and Osaka first as we had activated our 7 day JR Pass, so we decided to explore Ikebukuro where we had rented our air bnb 🤩 A place which was kind of a mini version of Akihabara
There were some shops which we wanted to visit in the area and also wanted to visit Sunshine City as they had ‘J-WORLD’ in there. It was a small theme park in the mall for the Shounen Jump magazine, I’ve heard that it closed this year 😭 So I’m glad we got to visit. They also have another little theme park in there called Namja Town which looked amazing and also heard they have some of the best gyoza in there… but we didn’t go as we didn’t have enough time 😰 We also wanted to visit the Pokemon center, as it was one of the bigger ones around.
Before heading to Sunshine City we went to visit another mall which had a Neon Genesis Evangelion store. The Items were super over-priced but I still ended up buying a couple of small items 😅
Some other stuff in random shops in the mall! They also had a Tower Records in here, was able to buy a couple of game soundtracks from here
We visited the Animate store as it was close by.. 8 floors of anime heaven 😱 I had just seen the anime ‘Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii’ so it was awesome to be able to see all the promotions for it! This place also had some good Final Fantasy merch 🤩
We finally made it to Sunshine City… this place was huge!!!
We decided to go and eat a little something before exploring, the first area you come into has a large choice of delicious restaurants 😍 Then we headed to the Pokemon center!
Next we went to JWorld, which was pretty awesome! There was a section for Dragon Ball, Naruto and One Piece 😄 where you could re-create some famous scenes (mostly Dragon Ball)
By the time we came out of Sunshine City the day already passed 😨 After a short break at our airBnB, we wanted to go and try out the game centers
Then we ended the night a little early as we had a long trip to Kyoto in the morning so we got some food from 7eleven and headed back to eat at our airbnb 🤤 🤤
Some stuff I bought 🥰
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