Ikebukuro and Sunshine City

Just a quick post about my first experience of Ikebukuro’s Sunshine City to delight and amuse 🙂 It’s December 16th, there’s Christmas presents to buy and sushi to be eaten!! I met Bekah and we headed straight for Sunshine; a huge underground(?) shopping mall! Our target was the Ghibli shop that Bekah had been to before to buy things for Amy, our SOAS friend who we were doing Christmas with 🙂 We had a good mosey round and I settled on some cute chopstick rests shaped like Totoro and a Moomin pen. I also snuck a hankie that Bekah was eyeing up into my basket, and bought myself an adorable Calcifer pancake pan! The shop also featured a very very cute little tree hideaway with a giant cuddly Totoro and some figurines; naturally I squeezed my gigantic self in there to have a gander; it was so sweet!

They had a lovely Christmas thing going on, there’s a fountain that shoots up every now and again too!

The adorable Totoro tree

My super pancake pan!

 

Next up was sushi in our favorite sushi place and then an awesome trip to the purikura machines! We planned a few poses so they pictures turned out really well! We’re hilarious 😛

Sushi; as western as you can get it!

 

And there we have it!