It’s early in the morning and I just got off the subway in Tokyo.

The station is Akihabara.

I’m a little groggy as I step off so I decide to throw a couple hundred yen into a vending machine and get an ice coffee to give me the jolt I need.

The hostel that I’m living in is three stations away which is a main junction of the vast labyrinth of Tokyo subway. I ended up going there quite a bit not only to see it but also just to go through on my way to other adventures.

But this time my adventure involves getting a new camera and there is no better place than here.

Anyways back to the subway station…..

I’m wandering around trying to figure out how to leave the station and I actually start following a huge group of people that seem like they know where they’re going, I myself pretend to do the same.

And lo and  behold they ended up leading me to the exit or at least one of them.

As I am exiting the subway station it’s a beautiful morning with the sun shining bright upon the square in front of the main exit, and huge buildings periodically block out the sun. I didn’t understand how vast Akihabara was.

After about 10 minutes of walking I realise it’s a vast network of electronic shops, sex stores and every other art shop you can think of. This is the kind of place where you can play with the most technologically advanced video games or go to one of the best cafés in the world.

Needless to say this a cool place which I didn’t know at the time and the only thing I was looking for was a place to have coffee.

I set out for the cheapest and most convenient shop in Japan – 7/11.

If you’re looking for a place with small snacks and coffee then it doesn’t get any better than that.

In a place like Japan you can easily spend $300 without knowing.

(Or $50 in a dollar store.)

After my little snack and coffee I decide to go outside and look for a new camera. As I’m walking down the streets I look from alley to alley seeing all the different stores I can go to but I eventually just like the shops with the video games. As I’m passing a discount and used video game store I saw a beautiful shimmering polar light shine on a store just as if God was telling me to go there…

I thought why not it’s says it’s tax free so I go in and a well dressed Japanese woman comes up to me and says “hello, good morning!” I explain that I want a nice camera and give her my budget, to which she smiles and within 10 minutes of haggling I buy a Sony with 2 lenses. It only cost about $900 which is not that bad considering what I am getting.

I say thank you and shake her hand.

After I dropped all that money I was sweaty and hungry so I decide to go to McDonalds. I sit down and get a burger with a drink. As I’m wandering the McDonalds looking for a plug I luckily find one so I drop the food on the table and quickly unpack my new camera.

The window I’m facing has a beautiful view of people weaving in and out of each other. Everybody kind of looks like ants and I giggle to myself as I wait for my camera to charge.

I eat a burger and have my soda; it’s okay for McDonalds.

I insert my SD card and try taking some photos – it’s surprisingly clear. God, I love technology!

What a place to buy a camera.

After that I decide to wander around trying to take some photos – granted at this time I’m still new at doing high quality snapshots of all the different things around and I have to say that its such a photogenic place. You can take photos right then and there, and I think after about an hour of walking around seeing the beauty I had about 400 photos.

Now there’s a lot more things that I did apart from take photos, there’s 4-5 things on my bucket list that I crossed out there but I want to leave those for another post.

Akihabara is one of those places you can just get lost in and I’m happy I did actually spend a lot of time in Tokyo because there’s such a food interest and such interesting stuff. If you’re planning on visiting I suggest to leave maybe two days to wander around.

But if technology is not your thing I can completely understand as well as there are other places where you can find exactly what you’re looking whatever, from robot dance cafés to traditional Buddhist monasteries. It’s a beautiful place and I hope you guys get the chance to go there.

I love you all, I’ll see you on the next post and sorry if there was some mistakes but as they say that’s just life.

Love Dane