A weekend off Tokyo style
The deal is coming to a close and as such I was actually able to leave at a proper time on Friday and have had the whole weekend free bar an email check in the office on Saturday and today (Sunday). Mum flew in on her way from Hong Kong back to Beijing and has been here for the weekend. She arrived Friday night and leaves Monday morning, but we've managed to get two full days sightseeing in, and we had a birthday sushi dinner for her on Friday after she arrived.
I've been making up for lost time socialising too - Friday night after I'd had dinner with mum I went and met some of my colleagues at the Muse club again - ended up being in there til about 4 am, going to the bar with the deer heads and chandeliers again and getting rice and curious looking meat at 5am. Got to bed by about 6am then I was up at 11 to go sightseeing with mum.
We did a lot of walking Saturday and saw a fair bit, then I had a nap in the early evening and went out to meet Mayumi, a girl from Tokyo that I'd met last Saturday in Muse. Met her in Heartlands (a popular ex-pat bar in Roppongi Hills) with some of her colleagues and we stayed there for a few hours before going for some sushi, sake and Shochu (a clear vodka-like spirit made from sweet potato).
We parted ways at about midnight and then I met up with Sean and Gwenael from work, together with Gwen's cousin Xavier. We barhopped a bit then ended up back in Muse again where I stayed until about 3:30 before going back to get some sleep.
Up at 10am this morning and mum and I went to the Meiji shrine near Harajuku. There were a few weddings going on and then we walked up to Shinjuku, got some lunch and wandered around. Taxi over to Ginza (BIG shopping street), then back over to the office (where I am now) to check my emails and upload photos.
Tonight we're going to the New York Grill at the top of the Park Hyatt - it's where the Lost in Translation bar and hotel scenes were filmed, so it should be a pretty amazing view.
Photos below.
Ken
I can't take enough photos of the changing leaves on the Japanese maples
One of the wedding processions
Sun, rooves and tree
Me at the Meiji shrine
Sake drums at the Meiji shrine
Nice colours
Some promotional (real) snowman - must have cost a fair bit to get the snow shipped in...
I have no idea...
View from the office - clearer day
Ditto
The office building
Wedding ceremony in the shrine nearest my flat
Gingko tree leaves
Ditto
Flowers...for desert. All edible apparently.
Ginza
Yuko, Mayumi and me.
Yuko and Mayumi
I've been making up for lost time socialising too - Friday night after I'd had dinner with mum I went and met some of my colleagues at the Muse club again - ended up being in there til about 4 am, going to the bar with the deer heads and chandeliers again and getting rice and curious looking meat at 5am. Got to bed by about 6am then I was up at 11 to go sightseeing with mum.
We did a lot of walking Saturday and saw a fair bit, then I had a nap in the early evening and went out to meet Mayumi, a girl from Tokyo that I'd met last Saturday in Muse. Met her in Heartlands (a popular ex-pat bar in Roppongi Hills) with some of her colleagues and we stayed there for a few hours before going for some sushi, sake and Shochu (a clear vodka-like spirit made from sweet potato).
We parted ways at about midnight and then I met up with Sean and Gwenael from work, together with Gwen's cousin Xavier. We barhopped a bit then ended up back in Muse again where I stayed until about 3:30 before going back to get some sleep.
Up at 10am this morning and mum and I went to the Meiji shrine near Harajuku. There were a few weddings going on and then we walked up to Shinjuku, got some lunch and wandered around. Taxi over to Ginza (BIG shopping street), then back over to the office (where I am now) to check my emails and upload photos.
Tonight we're going to the New York Grill at the top of the Park Hyatt - it's where the Lost in Translation bar and hotel scenes were filmed, so it should be a pretty amazing view.
Photos below.
Ken
I can't take enough photos of the changing leaves on the Japanese maples
One of the wedding processions
Sun, rooves and tree
Me at the Meiji shrine
Sake drums at the Meiji shrine
Nice colours
Some promotional (real) snowman - must have cost a fair bit to get the snow shipped in...
I have no idea...
View from the office - clearer day
Ditto
The office building
Wedding ceremony in the shrine nearest my flat
Gingko tree leaves
Ditto
Flowers...for desert. All edible apparently.
Ginza
Yuko, Mayumi and me.
Yuko and Mayumi
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