Tokyo. Random window shopping and train trips
A nice walk to Ginza this morning. Nothing for us, only Bvlgari, Chanel, Tiffany, Cartier, Dunhill etc. and other "luxury" fashion brands including lots of shops selling wedding dresses, diamonds etc etc all very upmarket.
The Tokyo Police museum was actually very interesting, a quick background to the founding of a police service based on the French model. After the Satsuma rebellion, all history we had never known.
Pork and ramen soup for lunch in a cellar restaurant near the Kibuki theatre for under 1800 yen for two of us with too much food. Strange system of prepurchasing the meal from an intelligible board with Japanese characters, luckily the waitress could speak a little Engish and showed us how to put coins in a slot, tickets popped out which were whisked away efficiently to the kitchen.
We lso looked at a couple of camera shops selling vintage Leica and Hasselblad cameras at amazing prices.
We left the lovely Intergate hotel for a hotel in Bakurocho Ekimae, 4 stops on the train 170 yen each.
The afternoon was spent looking at kitchen equipment in the dedicated "Kitchen Sreet"in Kappabashi Taito. A very nice Blue carbon steel knife was $1000! A little out of our budget range.
Interesting seeing the ceramic food displays for sale. A restaurant can purchase very real looking plates of food such as noodles with pork and egg etc. All meant for restaurants to display in their windows to attract customers.
Another train trip. 4 stops. Most trips so far have cost 170 each way Aud$2.24 per person one way. There are day passes available which we will investigate later.
The Tokyo Police museum was actually very interesting, a quick background to the founding of a police service based on the French model. After the Satsuma rebellion, all history we had never known.
Pork and ramen soup for lunch in a cellar restaurant near the Kibuki theatre for under 1800 yen for two of us with too much food. Strange system of prepurchasing the meal from an intelligible board with Japanese characters, luckily the waitress could speak a little Engish and showed us how to put coins in a slot, tickets popped out which were whisked away efficiently to the kitchen.
We lso looked at a couple of camera shops selling vintage Leica and Hasselblad cameras at amazing prices.
We left the lovely Intergate hotel for a hotel in Bakurocho Ekimae, 4 stops on the train 170 yen each.
The afternoon was spent looking at kitchen equipment in the dedicated "Kitchen Sreet"in Kappabashi Taito. A very nice Blue carbon steel knife was $1000! A little out of our budget range.
Interesting seeing the ceramic food displays for sale. A restaurant can purchase very real looking plates of food such as noodles with pork and egg etc. All meant for restaurants to display in their windows to attract customers.
Another train trip. 4 stops. Most trips so far have cost 170 each way Aud$2.24 per person one way. There are day passes available which we will investigate later.
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