{"id":12850,"date":"2024-07-07T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:22:33","slug":"japan-day-2-shibuya-harajuku-svt-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/japan-day-2-shibuya-harajuku-svt-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 2 – Shibuya, Harajuku, SVT Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ben got an early start each day while I took longer to wake up. He usually walked around our neighborhood and ate a local-style breakfast. Here’s some photos he sent me from this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a 10am cafe reservation in Harajuku. We had a couple hours to kill before then so we went o Shibuya before the crowds arrived. When we arrived at the famous scramble I was sure we were in the wrong place. It was so small! Ben found the Hachiko dog memorial and confirmed that indeed this was the famous Shibuya scramble. Not so impressive without crowds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We popped into a konbini for drinks and curry bun before looking for nearby shrines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our go-to drinks of barley tea and green tea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next stop was Harajuku. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eki stamps!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Harder to find than we expected! We were always delighted when we found one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was too early for shops, so we walked and looked. We took some truly cursed photos at the Purikura booth shop where the noisiness was on another level!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More peaceful wandering:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knock-off K-pop gashapons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hydrangea! So many in bloom during our visit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Very cool vertical garden on this building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tree designated as kami<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pedestrian bridge selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The time has come . . . for the pop-up Seventeen Cafe!! Yes, I got to attend a real k-pop collab cafe for my FAVORITE group! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cafe was running from May to July this year. It was very difficult to purchase tickets. The websites were all in Japanese and required a Japan-specific web account from hubsynch, which required a Japanese phone and address entered in a specific way that was hard for us to figure out (our local pal Koichi got on video chat to help spot errors!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all of that I was nearly turned away at the door when I couldn’t login to load my reservation live on the site! Luckily the cafe worker kindly took my email confirmation and my passport and compared it to their list. It really looked like I was going to be denied at first and I was panicking so hard. But we got in!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Seventeen right here!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First in, we were seated in the corner by Hoshi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music videos playing on all the walls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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swaaaag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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