A Weekend in Tokyo

Sonia arrived on Friday afternoon while I was out at a Call Centre trade show (which is interesting when it's all in Japanese). We met up at the Park Hyatt hotel, which has a restaurant and bar that was featured in the movie "Lost in Translation". The view is amazing from the 52 floor - you can see most of Tokyo and what looks like all of the way down to Yokohama.

On Saturday we started slow with bagels and coffee (at home) then wandered around central Tokyo sorting out errands. Getting new heels on my work shoes turned out to be expensive - around USD 30 per pair! Then a walk to the bookshop (there is a small shop with all English books) and on to the supermarket. The supermarket is pretty good - a large range of stuff that we have mostly not been able to get in KL and HK. The afternoon included a good workout at the gym - on level 22 it also has a good view up towards Roppongi. Then we went out to an Italian restaurant: "Il Mulino". Very nice! But it did make us realise that Tokyo can be very expensive. Coincidentally we saw a couple of advertisements for apartments (for sale). Most of them seem to be between 1 and 3 million USD. Incredible the prices!

This afternoon we caught the subway to Omotesando, then walked down the road to Shibuya. A walk through the backstreets around Shibuya, eventually finding a cheap hole-in-the-wall place that did nice Indian food. Then back to the apartment, the gym, and dinner of chicken breast and salad.

Tomorrow it's back to work, and Sonia is off to HK on the late afternoon flight (and on to Bangkok on Tuesday morning).