Chapter 5 - Zao Fox Village / Shibuya / Seaside Top

We took the shinkansen up to Shiroishi-Zao Station.  From there is about a 25 minute taxi ride up to the fox village and cost about ¥4,500 each way (no busses that I know of run up to the sanctuary).  I read somewhere that the fox village is a sanctuary that rescued foxes when they were hunted for their fur or something.  Now it's just a big sanctuary for foxes.  There's a ton of foxes everywhere in the sanctuary, for the most part they seem like cats just sleeping all over the place.  They don't really bother people for the most part unless there's food involved.  There's a few caged sections, one section of caged foxes look like they're for petting.  I'm just assuming that they're kept in cages to prevent people from over petting them and they're only brought out at certain times of the day.  A few of them have very small cages however.  The juveniles are kept in separate areas as well as the breeding females.  Overall it was a great place to visit.  Just watch out for acorns if you go on a windy day...
You're not allowed to pet the foxes in the sanctuary but you can feed them in a designated feeding area.  However there isn't any fox food to purchase at the feeding area and all the fox food I saw for purchase was back at the entrance.

Little inari shrine at the top

A lot of juveniles were held in this caged area.

This cage held the females for breeding

The Shiroishi-Zao Station is a shinkansen station. Not to many of them stop here so it's a good place to watch shinkansen pass by.

Next we went to Shibuya.  My wife and I aren't really into clothes shopping / fashion or things outside of amine/manga related culture, so we just wanted to see Shibuya.  We took pictures in the Shibuya crossing, found the L&L (very popular in Hawaii) and gave Animate another chance, but yet again left with disappointment.  I did find an animate limited edition of Gekkan Shojo Nozaki Kun Vol. 9 however, so small win for Animate.  Stopped by more arcades and headed off to Hamamatsucho Station again.

The L&L was playing Gangnam Style... it was weird.

At Hamamatsucho again we went to the Seaside Top.  There's an observation deck on the 40th floor and unlike our visit to the Skytree, we went to the Seaside Top at night and it was beautiful.  On one side you can see the Tokyo Tower and on the otherside you can see some of Tokyo Bay, the Sky Wheel and the Fuji TV building.  It was also had a great ambiance, very quite, dimly lit and very few people.  It's a great place to just hangout and take some time lapse or long exposure photos.