It started with a coffee on my balcony. There, far in the distance, is the famous Tokyo Skytree.
Now the Shibuya Scramble Crossing. First, photos and video from above...
... and then we joined the crowds and crossed it ourselves.
This being Sunday, we walked towards Yoyogi Park, as recommended by Simon, to watch the locals. But it started drizzling, and the locals apparently preferred to stay indoors - there was hardly anybody in the park, we left and took the subway to the Bank of Japan Currency Museum (it being indoors). It was very interesting, but they prohibit taking photos. We then ate lunch in one of the Ninonbashi food courts nearby, at a place that advertised itself as "tongue specialists" - we did get tongue, but it was hard and chewy, rather disappointing...
From there, we walked towards the Imperial Palace East National Gardens, and somewhere along the way came upon this shape-shifting fountain.
(Supposedly this is where Alex dropped his IC card, when he pulled out his phone to take a photo. We discovered the loss much later, at the subway station.)
The Imperial Palace gardens are surrounded by moat and a stone wall, some parts are open to the public and East Garden is one of them.
From there, we walked a long way to the subway station, discovered that Alex no longer had his card, realized that neither of us had the energy to try to walk back to the fountain and look for it, charged a different card and went home. The day was long and dreary, and we had nothing to eat since morning except the subpar tongue. As we were passing the Starbucks with tables on a covered terrace (I noticed it before, we passed it every time on our way home from the subway station), I just turned into it. We got another chestnut pastry for me and a scone for Alex, and two coffees.
We just spent some time there quietly, enjoying our treats and watching the people hurrying by. Then we went home and had dinner at the apartment (using the groceries that we got the first evening).
The day ended like it started, with the view from our balcony. Here you can see the SkyTree being lit in a certain way. Apparently it has three alternating styles: Iki (blue), Miyabi (purple), and Nobori (orange) - according to the website, they express the concept that today is connected to tomorrow, and the future expands beyond that. This one looks like Nobori to me, unless it was a special display - they have those too.
> Day 5
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