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A day in Ginza
Today we had a fun outing in the Ginza area.
We first went to Tokyo station to eat at Paul, a French bakery where you can get all you can eat bread when having a meal. It doesn't seem to say anywhere that you can get all the bread you want, but when your basket is empty you just have to ask for more! Rather cheap way that guarantees to make you full. :)
The restaurant was quite crowded today though and the service wasn't so good. There were some delays and mistakes, and the probably-American couple next to us seemed particularly unhappy about their experience. Anyway it was still all very good!
Once full, we walked to Ginza and shopped a bit at Muji Yūrakuchō, where they are preparing a model house, as it seems that their next business will be to sell Muji houses. I bought a green cardigan (unusual Muji color).
We then passed by the police museum and stepped in to check out the old bikes and helicopter displayed. The place was really crowded with little kids, who are able to change into police clothing of their size to take pictures. The whole museum is free.
Our lunch having gone down a bit, we went to have cakes and coffee at Hidemi Sugino nearby. We were hoping to have their award-winning chocolate cake but, especially it being weekend, the place was rather crowded and most of the cakes were already sold out. We picked Brésilienne and Tropical cakes (moblog), which were great!
We then walked to Nihonbashi to check out the recently opened department store Coredo. Shops found there include the entertainment/interior/toy shop Garage, where can be found a large variety of fun stuff (Halloween stuff, the world's smallest TV set (1.5"), Meccano, remote-controlled dancing robots (moblog), robotized cats, and much more), Sony Plaza's Serendipity (a small department store in itself), and also many clothing shops and restaurants.
We bought some aromatized Belgian chocolate bars (dark chocolate with pink peppercorn, and milk chocolate with masala).
Finally we walked back to Ginza (moblog), checked out the new Barneys New York (pictures) that just opened a week ago. Very nice, but pricey of course.
After a bit more window-licking we went back home.
Posted on October 10, 2004 at 22:13 | Tweet
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yeah, ginza... too expensive for me...
wednesday i went with the new guy working at my hotel to school him on questions nutty foreigners like me ask, or places we want to go
however, i am very selfish, and ditched him in tower @ shibuya as soon as i saw the fifth floor had a bossa section posted on the wall.
that sony building... all i could think about was man, when is target gonna get these Hi-MDs on clearance?!!
Posted by bud on October 16, 2004 at 17:58