Adventure to the land of the rising sun, Japan - Part 2

So this is part 2 of my adventure in Japan for 2 weeks, if you want to read part 1 you can here.

These are a few other places that I recommend if you are visiting Tokyo.

Ikebukuro, one of the districts in Tokyo it offers plenty of entertainment and shopping. One place we visited was the Sanrio Gift Gate store which I happened to spot just passing by in the street. Being a kawaii (cute) fan I had to take a look. If you love kawaii things, and Hello Kitty then you will love this store, it offers lots of cute accessories featuring Hello Kitty & other Sanrio characters, it is only a short walk from the station so be sure to stop off here.

Another cool place we visited in Ikebukuro was a cat cafe. This is a cafe that has different breeds of cats in it. So if you are a big cat fan, like me and want to go for a cup of tea or drink this is the place to go.

It was on the 5th floor of a building but is pretty big inside so the cats have lots of space to run about. You pay for a 1 hour visit and you can buy a drink such as tea, or a soft drink, have a rest and play with the cats, though most of them were sleeping when we were visiting. This probably depends on the time of day you make your visit. They are such lovely cats. There was about 18 cats. This isn't far away from the Pokemon Centre which was the next place we visited.

Also in this building there is a really cool girls gamer store, if you are a girl and you are into anime style games it's worth a visit I really enjoyed browsing the games and merchandise.

Some of the cute cats in the Cat cafe.

Girls Gamer Store, lots of merchandise for anime fans.

The Pokemon Centre in the Sunshine centre, which is a big shopping mall. If you are a Pokemon fan you have to visit this store when you come to Tokyo, it's a Pokemon fans dream. I used to be a big Pokemon fan back in the day, so I thought it would be a cool place to go visit while in Ikebukuro. I bought myself some stationary and a Pikachu Plush, it was such a cute Pikachu. Any Pokemon fan will love this store.

Animate, There is many of these scattered about all over Tokyo, I must have gone in a few. This one just over the road from the Pokemon centre. As I said in Part 1 I spent quite a bit in these shops. Great place for Anime fans! You have to visit these.

Animate just across from the Pokemon Centre

Another district to visit is Shinjuku, if you love looking at sky scrappers you should take a visit to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, where you can go up to Observation decks for free and see an outstanding view of Tokyo, it's really stunning to see. I highly recommend this, we went up in the evening when all the buildings were lit up. It was amazing, you can see the Tokyo Tower in the distance.

We also visited the Robot restaurant, which is a big tourist attraction. Pretty odd but we went for the experience and enjoyed it. So you get to watch battling robots and people putting on a show for you it's a bit like a RPG story, it's very brightly coloured. The show lasts approx 90 mins, and you can buy tickets on the website, it costs 8,000 yen per person, you can also buy drinks and food in there too.

Shinjuki has many shops and resturants, lots being anime stores, which I loved looking around. One building has a Godzilla on top of it. So thats the end of part 2. Thanks for reading and there will be more soon!

Can you see Godzilla?

Streets of Shinjiku