Monday, April 28, 2008

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden




After walking through this beautiful place, we hit the basement level of Takashimaya, where there's a Kinokuniya grocery store and other food shops. We bought some special ham from a guy in a big chef's hat. Then we made our way to the 8th floor of the big Tokyu Hands department store next door, where the stationery is, and my mom and I bought some lovely paper products (my Dad, meanwhile, was utterly mystified as to why anyone would go to such trouble and expense for nice paper products). Next stop: lunch at the kaiten sushi place on Omotesando Street, where the food rolls past on a conveyor belt. We had salmon and eel sushi, fatty tuna rolls, octopus salad, sweet sticky rice wrapped in tofu, a wedge of melon and then some mango and papaya for dessert. Only $30 for the three of us (sorry, Pat). Yum!

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