Today I woke up extra early and made my way down to Osaka. I was up for some shopping today since I was in Kyoto for the past two days looking at shrines and being surrounded by nature. I arrived in Osaka sometime in the early afternoon and to my surprise, it was really sunny. I thought it would be raining heavily because it was in Tokyo, Nagoya and Kyoto. But it was good so, I don't have to carry an umbrella around.
I got lost once I dropped off Namba Station, somehow, I walked and walked following google maps and got lost somewhere near Amerikamura and the little streets nearby reminded me of Harajuku. I really liked it, and there were some cool shops. I went window shopping and eventually stumbled upon this cool vintage shop that sold really old toys, from Disney to Marvel to DC and even The Smurfs. Even if I'm not a huge collector of toys, I really love looking at vintage toys. Plus, they had some cool displays.
After that, I just roamed around Amerikamura and bought a nice skirt for summer from American Apparel. Amerikamura is kinda small, so I finished it quickly and slowly walked to Dotonburi. Even if there are so many shops in Dotonburi, I really wasn't interested in anything, so I went to look for some stuff for the family and went to chill at Starbucks for a little bit. Recently, I've really been enjoying reading again, and I didn't realize I already spent an hour on reading over there and decided to continue walking.
I don't know why, but I didn't have any idea where I was heading, I just walked and walked to the end of the shopping street and turned and found Tower Records. So, obviously without a thought, I just went. This Tower Records was kinda small with only two stories. I was on the first floor trying to find the rock section and once I found it, it was somewhere towards the corner near an escalator. I was just looking at Her Name In Blood's album and at that moment I turned, the guy that has been on my mind a lot lately came down from the escalator.
I went up and talked to him because he sent me a message telling me to talk to him last week, lol. It was funny because he could recognise me immediately and we just started talking from there. We were all over the place but talked a lot. I kept telling him it was weird that I bumped into him again (third time but different city), and he kept laughing. He has such a dorky laugh, it's so cute. He told me he followed me on Instagram because he liked my art and he's really bad at drawing, haha. Then, I asked him if he likes art and he says he does, so I told him to practice more and he'll be fine, with a ganbatte ne! And he was saying ganbarimasu~ Soon after, we exchanged contact info and he was telling me the rest of his band and their manager was upstairs. I told him I wanted to go up anyways to look at some CDs, but he decided to come with me to introduce me to his band.
I was texting Yuri while on the escalator up and he was just staring at me, it was kinda funny. Once upstairs, his manager and the guitarist of the band were there, so he was telling them how I saw them once in Shibuya and him another time in Harajuku, and they were like "eh???!!" Because it's funny right, again but in a different city, what are the odds? Soon after, the bassist of his band came and said hi as well, I thought he could speak English well because he writes it so well on his Instagram feed but fuck no, he said he can understand it perfectly but had problems with pronouncing words. I told him to practice more and it'll be okay. We were just talking for a bit and after that, they were telling me they had to do some promotional stuff for their new album, so I told them it was nice meeting them again and I'll just go look at the things I actually wanted to. Soon after, they went downstairs, and I was just looking at the metal section.
When I came down, I saw him again, listening to music but didn't want to bother him so I just left. I was just thinking, if one of us did something different, we probably wouldn't meet again. I find life so strange, just one thing could change your life so drastically. But I'm happy with how things turned out today. I didn't do much after that, but get dinner and took the train back to Tokyo.
I honestly thought this week wouldn't be as good as last week but it's actually better. I'm really happy with things lately even with all the rollercoaster emotions. Every week has been crazy for me since I've been back in Japan and I can only say, I feel alive.
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