On Business models

秋葉原 or Akihabara is filled with niche businesses catering to all sorts of things. While wandering around I thought I'd stumbled across a lolcats sign of some sort before realizing that it was a literal cat cafe. For 800円 you get a drink and can play with cats for half an hour. You of course aren't allowed to bother the cats and if they're sleeping you're supposed to leave them alone, etc. but it's definitely something different than your typical Maid Cafe, or Starbucks.

渋谷 Shibuya

Shibuya on a weekday is busy. Shibuya on a weekend is a neverending flood of people there to do, something. Each time the light changed at Hachiko gate/crossing hundreds (thousands?) of people swarmed the roads. Saw a group of guys with bigger, badder, better hair than any of the girls. The crowd picture here is actually one of the roads leading up to Shibuya 109, a pretty popular department store.

There's lots of "cute" here. Some of the artwork and even the back of the street sign stickers are cute yet kinda disturbing.