A sunday in Shibuya

Hi Friends,
Since I still had a cold this weekend, I just went for a little walk in Shibuya, a part of Tokyo, which is quite popular with the young people. Here are some impressions of the young fashion in Shibuya:



Please click the photo and take a closer look at the beautiful GTA-Truck ^_^!!!


That's right! It's a smart Roadster!!! In Germany, it is nothing special, but in Japan, it is a rarely driven car.

I've seen that movie poster quite often, since I arrived in Tokyo. The title is "幸せのちから", which means "The strength of happiness". The original title is "The pursuit of happyness". I find the poster very intriguing. It has such a positive aura... I really want to see that film ^_^, but the cinema is very expensive here!

Now I'd like to show you the inside of the japanese game centres! The older machines cost only 50 Yen (ca. 0,33 Euro). The newer ones cost 100 Yen (0,67 Euro). As you can see, the japanese game centres are very cheap when compared to Germany. And, of course, they've got the newest games available ^_^.



The good, old street fighter game is still played in Japan!!!

As you can see, there are all kinds of games. The old man in the pic plays Shôgi, a japanese chess game!

Now here's a game, I'll definitely play some day. It is a typing game played with keyboards!!! They also have a new version of "Typing of the dead"! Now I just have to find someone, who can type as fast as me or even faster...

You can also find some Mahjong machines in every game centre. It seems to be quite popular...

Well, Mahjong was for the old generation, now here are the games for the really young generation ^_^!

The newest evolution in game machines: You play this game with some kind of trading card, which you place on the game field in front of you. There are so many of these trading card game machines for all kinds of games. Strategic War games, Action games, Football games, Quiz games, etc.
And here's the clue! You can play these games with ten or twenty people at the same time!!! As you can see, everyone has a small monitor in front of the machine. But in the background, there's a great monitor for all players, where you can see the actual game action!

Well, here's the absolute best game available in Japan. It is a mobile suit gundam simulator. A "gundam" is some kind of great mecha (robot). In this game (you play 2 vs. 2), you are the pilot of one gundam and you are sitting in a "COCKPIT"!!! You don't have a simply monitor and some buttons in front of you, instead half of the cockpit is the monitor and you use your whole body (arms and feet) to control the gundam, so piloting this thing seems to be very complicated. As an outsider, you can watch the fight of the four gundams at another monitor.