Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #19 (May 4 to 10)

Weekly revue: 2013 week #19 (May 4 to 10)

Last week was Golden Week! 4 public holidays stuffed in one week, although this year two fell on a weekend (one shifted to a Monday), so there were a total of 3 days off. This year they were separated by 3 normal weekdays, giving for 2 long weekends (3 days and 4 days). Some people take those days off to enjoy a long vacation (so did I last year), hence the Golden Week name. This year I just enjoyed the two longer weekends.

Outing: - We went for a ride on the latest (2nd) boat designed by Matsumoto Leiji (Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock (Albator), Interstella 5555, ...)! Its name is Hotaluna, and it's bigger than the previous Himiko. Hotaluna has a feature to let people go on the roof! The route has two legs to choose from, Asakusa-Hinode and Hinode-Odaiba. We went from Hinode to Asakusa, and maybe because of the number of bridges on the way, access to the roof was closed. Still a very nice ride on a cool spacey ship, and it's a fun alternative way of transport. We'll have to go for Odaiba next time. :)

- On the way we got closer and closer to Tokyo Sky Tree, and since we hadn't been nearby since its opening we decided to walk there from Asakusa. This time we only looked at it from below, maybe the best way to enjoy it. We also spent some time looking around its Solamachi mall. All restaurants were crowded so we wended up at a small local Chinese restaurant not far.

Food: - We went again to Tapir. in Shin-Okubo, this time to enjoy the 2nd half of the food trading event. In the 1st half customers gave various kinds of food, and in the 2nd half that food is used to make many different things (the menu changes throughout the day). It was great! We even tried going one more time but it was already closed.
- I can never resist trying a black forest cake. We found this one found at Park Hyatt's Pastry Boutique. Very good (pricey though), though no cherries inside, just jelly.
- Later in the week I had another black forest cake from Sangenjaya's Octobre, it was great!