Visiting nostalgic places

Dear readers,

Sorry that I haven't been able to post in a while. It's been really busy with school and the like. I probably won't be able to update as much as I like, but this weekend is a three day weekend, so I have a little more time. 

I'm probably going to divide the past couple weeks into different entries.

First, before school started, I decided to revisit the little town I used to live in, Hiyoshi. It was kind of relieving that not much had changed! I did notice that some of the stores changed, though. For example, the place where I bought my PSP, the used video game store and the bookstore I used to go to aren't there anymore, which is a bit sad. 

So, I walked all the way to my dorm, Shimoda: 

 

 

This is the entrance to Keio University, Hiyoshi campus. I remember walking this way to go to the Sukima Switch concert and to go to Manga club on Wednesday evenings:

This is the famous meeting place in Hiyoshi station, "gintama" or silver ball:

Yup, so Hiyoshi was fun! Hopefully, it will be an even more fun experience revisiting the places we used to go when Inga and Tamaki get here!

I also thought that I might as well visit Shibuya while I was on the train, so I went to Shibuya afterwards. The train station has changed a lot and gotten more confusing, but I was able to make my way out and into the crowded streets. It was a weekend, so of course it was full of people as always. Shibuya has always been confusing to get around for me, but I was really proud that I was able to find every place that I wanted to find.

Of course, the first place I stopped by was the Disney store. I remember going there all the time when I was feeling down and it would help make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I passed by the Loft and Tokyo Hands department stores and stopped in to look around the tiny manga/anime Mandarake store that I found by chance 3 years ago.

I also found the larger manga/anime Animate store for the first time. I had only been to the Animate in Akihabara, but I had heard there was in Shibuya, so it was cool to find it. There, I bought a voice actor DVD for fun that came with a ticket that may let me go to a voice actor event. Hopefully, I can get it♡ haha...

By the end, I was super tired out and it was super hot, so it was nice to return home that afternoon. Overall, it was a nice day of nostalgia. It was kind of lonely to do it all on my own, especially in Shibuya, where there are more people so when you're alone you feel even more alone than usual. It's really a strange feeling. But, in the end I'm glad that I did it!