First night back in Tokyo, we had Chinese food for dinner.
For breakfast the next morning, we went to Food Maison, a Delifrance-type place. They had these cute Easter bunny breads.
We got off at Meiji-jingumae and walked through Omote-sando to Nogizaka.
Look at this big fancy entrance.
The Omote-sando Hills is full of high-end shops. Gram recognized all the top brand names, like Louis Vuitton.
We thought these women were all lining up for a bus until we got to the end of the line and this guy had a sign marking where to line up for hugs. Kis-My-Pepper is a boy band.
Sweet bouquet. It looks like cotton candy.
A little shrine surrounded by buildings in the middle of the city.
The tiles on the side of this building.
A gallery shop with animal sculptures.
It was closed so I just took pictures from outside.
Loveless is...
A big fancy Prada building.
Three little piggly-wigglies.
There was a little house on top of this house.
A very lush cemetary.
Rhododendrons and azaleas are in bloom.
A super fancy bridal store. You can see a gold dress in the window.
And we finally made it to Nogizaka. This area is named after General Nogi. His former residence and garden is here, with a statue of him.
We came here for the antiques market, held on the fourth Sunday of every month at Nogi Shrine.
Gram wanted group selfies with the flowers.
Lots of strange little antiques.
Erotic dishes.
A Thai-Peruvian restaurant. I was interested in it but we were here too early and wandered away. The English descriptions are a little funny.
Here's the National Art Center. We went through the gift shops, where there were lots of cute and weird little handicrafts and goods.
Klimt's Lady in Gold is painted inside this piano.
It was hard to avoid glare, but here's Klimt's Tree of Life.
We found ourselves in Midtown. The garden had this art display of carp streamers.
There were all sorts of designs.
Mom liked the purple heart trees.
These sketchy cats were happy on one side,
and kind of sad looking on the other.
Here's another cat.
This one's a guy yawning.
Apparently a Hawaiian Music and Life Festival was going on. There were Hawaiian food booths and vendors.
This guy was making tiny little potteries.
And an airline was advertising flights to Hawaii. They had little tiny pilot and flight attendant uniforms for kids to dress up in.
We had lunch at a Vietnamese place. This is chicken curry and tom yum pho.
And we got a fruit bar from Paletas. This is mango pineapple passionfruit.
This sculpture looks just like the white donut in Sapporo Station. Turns out they were both by the same artist.
Only the colour is different.
An artist palette on top of that building.
We walked to Roppongi too.
Block Block.
TV Tokyo's cute mascot, Nanana. He bends into a number seven, the channel number of TV Tokyo.
This guy doesn't look like Elvis.
Pink motorcycles.
We went to Sweets Paradise, the dessert buffet in Harajuku.
They had this funny pink curry. Apparently it's strawberry curry, and it really did have strawberries in it, though it didn't really taste like strawberries.
Strawberries are big right now.
I liked how the bathrooms were labeled Dudes and Cuties.
Don't death, let's happy. A good motto for life.
