Hi, it is "Respect-for-the-Aged-Day" today, so I have enough time to update my blog. I went to Tokyo last Saturday, and as I had expected, there were lots of people throughout the capital as people were going to have the three-day weekends.
My friend wanted to drop off at Okachimachi station to buy tennis goods, so we walked from there to Akihabara, when we saw this shopping mall under the railroad bridge. As you can see, it seemed very new, and I found out that it was built just last year. The mall has its own name, "2k540 AKI-OKA ARTISAN".
I could see many cute shops that sold things like this.
As the name "ARTISAN" suggests, many of the shops seemed to be run by people specializing in making artifacts.
Would you include Miku in the category of the artifact? As you can see this figurine was in the showcase for people to take pics.
As I was walking along the mall, I found this chic coffee shop "Yanaka". The seats in there were all occupied.
So we were seated on this deck just in front of the shop. It was a mildly hot day, so this iced coffee tasted really nice. It had the strong bitterness I was expecting of.
As I was strolling about Akihabara, I saw this pachinko ad truck that featured AKB48. I read an article where a famous music producer said this group's popularity would last for another 5 years. Well, I don't think so.
And I came to this restaurant, "Pizza Salvatore" for dinner. My friend's iphone worked very well for us to get here.
As it was still warm around 6pm, we dined at this table.
The name for this pizza was "Diabola". I guessed the name had something to do with devil, because it included many kinds of spice that would energize you like hell.
We came back to Akihbara. The Hatsune Miku ad was for a karaoke bar. It was very impressive to see the Miku lit up in the center of Akihabara in the night.
I often have unpleasant days as you would, but I want to show you mostly the fun part of Japan in this blog :)
