My host mother from Hakodate came with one of her friends to visit her friend’s daughter in Tokyo. I met up with the three of them and had a great time laughing and seeing a couple of new places in this enormous city.
From Hakodate (函館)
Entrance to Tokyo Midtown, a new mall.
It features a fountain made with piano strings.
If you can call it a fountain.
Water runs down the strings and lands here.
It’s three stories long.
From above.
Transitioning to the escalators . . .
Fun composition, I guess.
Whoa there, escalator!!
Looking down at people through the purple.
And then looking upward.
A shop of creatively embedded TVs.
An actual apple TV!
I think I like normal stuffed animals better.
Hey, let’s watch Lion!
Is “Emergency” normally painted on fire trucks?
A table made of colored pencils.
The ends of those pencils.
Sushi USB drives!!
They even gave these ones food packaging.
Miuro: These things play iPods and roll around.
Pictures weren’t allowed here. Whoops, hehe.
My Engrish examples are weak so far . . .
notsosmallneither
Now there’s a library I’d go to!
I didn’t know that they came in pyramids.
Traditional Japanese green tea.
Yummy sweet thing that goes with special tea.
Host mom, friend, friend’s daughter.
Blurry. Bummer.
Automatic water AND soap.
Roppongi Midtown is the building on the right.
Where we ate dinner that night.
We had our own room!
The background reminds me of The Matrix.
There were eight different courses.
Like no Chinese food I’ve ever had.
Pretty beer. If only it tasted as good.
The Bay Bridge (right) links Tokyo & Yokohama.
China Shadow sits atop a hotel in Shinagawa.
Crazy Tokyo below.
Us plus my host mom’s nephew.
