Day 4

Tuesday 16/10

We woke up around 9am to go to Shibuya “a stimulating town that continues to update the trends of the young generation at a fast rate.” My Thanh had to interview Mr. Kenichi Yamada, a senior researcher at NHK, Japan’s public service broadcaster. Us guys, (Cliff, Josh, and I), decided to go with her to provide her support as she pursues her entertainment journalism career. To be quite frank, I thought what we did at NHK was pretty neat. Mr. Yamada took us into the NHK entertainment museum and educated us about the history of the company. While My Thanh was paying attention to him, we decided to venture around. Below you can see what we did.

NHK museum


Venturing off to take pictures


Teaching kids how broadcasting works


TV pose #1, Cliff


TV pose #2, Josh


TV Pose #3, Me


My Thanh holding on to a NHK character with Mr. Yamada


We took these pictures while My Thanh was interviewing Mr. Yamada


Help!


Hanging by a finger...


Then My Thanh joined in the fun after the interviewing...She had the best expression


Another scenery while the interviewing...these pictures were on the self-timer mode








Then she joined after again...


My Thanh, the future entertainment journalist, with the NHK building


Josh's fantasy building...he's a civil engineer



After NHK, we walked around Shibuya. That place was very busy and there were a lot of students in school uniform. I didn’t know schools took field-trips to the shopping area during the afternoon. According to our guide, it said to go into Shibuya 109, which is a fashion building that’s very popular among teenagers. All the shops in there were for girls and the style of clothing is very funky. I would never see myself wearing anything like that.

Shibuya



We left for Harajuku, specifically Takeshita Dori, which had “stores containing miscellaneous character and idol goods popular among teens.” It was so crowded there. Most of the shops there did not interest me; I didn’t see anything that caught my interest. Most of the time here, we just walked around appreciating the shopping area of Tokyo. We stopped by this temple but it wasn't open so we just took a picture and left. It started to rain so we had to leave early, but before that, we went into a BMW car dealership. I sat in the newest M3 model and pretended to drive in it while My Thanh and Josh walked backwards pass my window to add to the authenticity of my driving experience. I thanked them deeply for it afterwards. We went back to Shinjuku and slept!

Takeshita Dori


Inside Takeshita Dori


I thought this was cool


Us and the temple


M3!!!