A week and a day since the last post, and a few things have happened.
Later last Tuesday (after watching TV etc), I went out with @ki and her Aunt Yoshimi to Tokyo. We went to a number of places, namely a large shrine, the Tokyo Tower, Roppongi Hills, and an English Pub.
The Shrines around Japan are really interesting places I find. They feature a number of well designed monuments scattered around the perimeter, with the main shrine and also incense pot-bowls (which can be really big) near the center. The local one which is around a 10 minute ride away has a lot of moss and a tropical feel about it.
The Tokyo Tower is taller than the Eiffel Tower, and on the middle and “special” (because it costs more) observation deck up the top we observed Tokyo. There are large buildings everywhere with a few parklands, but it was largely covered by pollution, and as a consequence we could not see Fuji-san (Mt Fuji).
Roppongi Hills is a place in Tokyo filled with restaurants, pubs, and a number of foreigners. The architecture and design of the new shopping centre/hotel (?) and surrounding spaces was quite jaw dropping, but I didn’t manage to take many photos - I have a brochure instead.
At the English pub we went to (which was downstairs on a main street; they mainly spoke Japanese there also) there was a few tv screens around showing Japanese boxing/kickboxing/wrestling matches which I found quite interesting. One of the things I had there was a peach flavoured beer, and it was quite good. Some brands of Beer in Japan are really good compared to some in Australia - My favourite is Yebisu beer, which feels thick yet thin and smooth.