This is another one of the good qualities of Tokyo, there is always a place to settle between the swarming and skyscrapers.
At the outer rim of the Shinjuku center we found some nice shops. I bought a 7" single of a Japanese artist called The pitchshifters. I couldn't listen to it but I assume it is some kind of electro avantgarde, I found a picture of the artist with a KORG MS-20 ;-)
I read that there is a nice shop with vintage synthesizers located in Shinjuku.
I will find this shop at all costs.
The addresses are all in Japanese and I can't read them. All the buildings have at least five to six floors and in every floor there is a different shop.
I found the address of the shop, so I thought, but when I climbed the fire ladder and opened up the backdoor of the sixth floor, the only one not locked, I didn't find a synth shop, instead I found a game development studio with one american guy sitting on a mac and editing some video scenes.
When I asked him for a synth shop he had no idea. But he was nice, we talked a bit and he helped me find this mysterious shop of synths. Together we figured out that the shop I was looking for is on the other side of the street in the ninth floor...I went there and it was awesome!
We then had some lunch and walked to Cat street, a hipstreet with cool stores for hip gals and guys ;-) I didn't buy a thing but I found a want to have Yves Sant Laurent pair of glasses, Buddy Holly style!
We walked through Cat street until it was dark and then we drove back to the hotel and day two was over...
