Free entertainment and CHEAP TRENDY SHOPPING: Harajuku Station and Takeshita Dori

I remember a few years back being at the bookstore and seeing a photography book on Harajuku kids. If you look them up, they have these outrageous, creative (many people would probably say "weird") outfits. Some are cute, but they're all just so extreme! Anyway, they hang out at Harajuku Station on the weekends and love to show off their creativity. Unfortunately for me, I didn't see too many of them because it was also the weekend of the Nagisa Music Festival (which I went to on Sunday). So most of them were probably at the festival. OR we got there late in the day.

Anyway, normally the Harajuku kids DO hang out by the Harajuku Station. It's a cluster of them so it doesn't really take that much time to check them out. This is where you would see them:

OH and apparently....these kids right here with the "FREE HUGS" sign are supposedly part of a sex cult that was started in France (or somewhere else in Europe) and so when you go up to them to hug you, they start telling you about the cult. HAHAHA is this true? Crap....it all starts with a free hug...

But since we didn't get to see Harajuku kids, we checked out Takeshita Dori, which is a shopping street right by the station which has mostly cheap and trendy stuff. Here are some pics of Harajuku shopping (sorry I couldn't get the kids!):