Laforet Harajuku — Attraction in Tokyo

🔸Features Fashion building that has been an icon of Harajuku for a little over 40 years. Many stores for young people. POP UPs are often held here. Multi-purpose restroom on 3F, diaper changing place and nursing room on 4F ATM is on 1.5F Coin lockers are located on 2.5F, but there are no money changers, so you need to have some coins ready when you use them. 😶‍🌫️⚠️

🔹Points of concern There are not many restaurants. The stores change frequently. No information Lots of lines for restrooms. Trash cans are hard to find (under the elevator buttons, in the restrooms, and in the restaurant area). The floor numbers are interesting. No vending machines, no smoking area?

🅿️ parking lot The parking lot is a multi-level parking lot, so cars that are too high cannot park there. Compared to nearby coin-operated parking, it may be more reasonably priced. Business hours are short, so you need...

Lots of cool harajuku lolita and street fashion stores, clothing and accessories. I only wish the store owners were less pushy. Everywhere we went they said いらっしゃいませ、見てご覧ください even if we just walked past the store front without looking. If we stopped to look at something from the outside, they would start telling us about new items and sales. Be prepared for prices - most clothing items we looked at were over 12,000¥ minimum. Some inexpensive accessories. There's an official Sailor Moon store in the basement. Be careful of signs saying do not touch clothes, and do not take photographs. There were two or three cheaper stores on Takeshita street nearby with less human interaction - probably because it's so...

Lots of fashion-forward clothing stores in this building. Really enjoyed the diversity of fun fashion, and ended up buying a lot of clothes.

The layout of the building was easy to understand and not too overwhelming.

One downside of Laforet is that many of the clothing stores had a limited size range, primarily for slimmer sizes. I wear a US S/M and a Chinese M/L, which is generally easy to shop for across Japan. However, at least 6 or 7 stores here had clothing for only smaller sizes than that. This may be cultural and is not the fault of the stores, but just a heads up for other shoppers in a...