Freitag, 3. Mai 2013

A Cafe, Love and a Government Building

That how Love Stories start,... maybe not.

Yesterday I was awake very long I only slept 1 or 2 hours, then I decided to stay awake until breakfast, it really tastes better in the morning especially kinda fresher.

I also tried the boiled eggs for the first time, they are awesome, I guess I never had such great boiled eggs.
After breakfast I went back to bed to sleep a bit - I slept until 1PM, but that's OK, vacation is for relaxing either.

After finally leaving the hotel I used the Hanzomon Line until Otemachi and then the Marunouchi Line until Shinjuku to go for the Artnia Cafe - the Square Enix Cafe / Shop.

On my way I found a small shrine, there was also a small path to get to the shrine, I tried to get a picture of a completely empty path, I made it, cost me 10 min. of waiting.

One of my bullets points on my list of things, that I was aiming for, was a Kitsune and a Tanuki, I'm so happy I accomplished this multiple times already, it's to image, why I couldn't any doing the last two trips.

The Cafe was very easy to find, thanks to my preparations and the App, they offered some merchandising of their well known brands like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

It was not as spectacular as I expected, but that's OK, I was hoping to see their Sephiroth, which I saw picture of in their old shop.

I headed back to Shinjuku, especially Kinokuniya and Book Off, these stores were directly on my way, so I had to go in.

At Book Off they have a discount of 20% on all books, except those for 105 Yen (a lower price is not possible)

The Trusty Bell (in Europe this RPG-game is called Eternal Sonata) Game Guides are out of print said the Kinokuniya worker when I asked for these articles.

There was a second Book Off for today, those, that I'm visiting now, I only visit for research about which Book Offs should be visited and which not. I don't which this district was still Shinjuku, at least I just eastwards from the Kinokuniya. It's a small one with only one floor, but this floor is full of high cupboards, even too high for me to take the upper books, small japanese women won't have a chance to reach these books.
I rate 3/5 STARS.

Now I was only going to make 2 small films in front of the Metropolitan Government Building and one infront of the LOVE Sight in front of the Hilton Hotel.

There's not much to say about these things, the MGB was the highest buildingin Tokyo before the Skytree was built, if you have to choose, which building to use for a skyline picture, Tokyo Tower, Skytree or MGB, choose the MGB, it's the cheapest and the other two can both only be seen from there.

I don't know, why the LOVE sculpture exists, maybe in public life there's not that much love shared, I don't know, I mean in New York next to the Rockefeller Plaza there is one, too, maybe Tokyo just wanted to get even.. XD

That's all for now, I'll rest a bit and will try to change and also prepare my bio rhythm for my flight back and for my visit of the Tsukiji Fish Market tomorrow or the one day later.

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