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Boingo:

--- Quote from: apskip on September 18, 2009, 05:23:04 PM ---I am going to guess that it is "Three Minutes Happines" store in Shibuya:

Three Minutes Happiness
With such low price tags on everything, it's easy to go a bit crazy at this two-story discount shop. Highlights include loads of affordable clothing, a towering bin of cute $2-per-pair underwear, and a bounty of bright hand towels (there are no towels in public restrooms, so everyone carries a reusable one).
3-5 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, 03-5459-1851



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 :tup: excellent!  good job.

Boingo:
 :lol:  Oh the walk's not that long, peach.  Only a quarter mile to "Three Minutes Happiness" from NHK studio.

eta:  Looks like it's an easy trek till they get to Shibuya Crossing.  They may have to go through Shibuya Station to cross over the JR train tracks to get to the shrine.  Hope they don't lose anyone in the station.  :lol:  Come to think of it, just Shibuya Crossing could be a nightmare herding a load of tourists through that maze.   :groan:

apskip:
None of the work done previously by Peach or by me helps in finding where  Konno Hachimangu really is. Here is a writeup on it:

Konno Hachimangu
(3-5-12 Shibuya), a historical shrine said
to have been built in 1092. The Konnozakura
cherry tree to the side of the main
shrine has been designated a municipal
natural monument and is well known as
providing an unusual variety of cherry
whose branches bloom in both single and doublepetaled
flowers.

I can't copy this map, but it shows that this shrine is located very close to Shibuya station. This dovetails with the description boingo has provided to pass Three Minutes Happiness store on the way to Shibuya station.  You can see the location of this shrine in the map at the top right of this link: Konno Hachimangu Shrine

Slowhatch:
Here's a view of 3-Min Happiness. I thought that the Dennys you see when you turn the camera around might be same place Ray/Yolanda stopped for directions, but it turns out their Dennys was several blocks south.

georgiapeach:
THAT is SOOO cool!! :jumpy: Can you do it at the shrine??

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