October 28th (Tokyo)

Today, we were pretty sick of shopping so we decided to go to a museum. The Edo-Tokyo Museum to be exact. It's a museum dedicated to history of the city (Tokyo was named Edo before the Meiji restoration).

All metros and most main streets have things on the ground to help guide the blind

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We started walking the museum realizing that there wasn't that many English signs so we went back to the entrance to get audio-guides. When we came back we realized that the audio-guides were just reading the English signs and didn't give any extra info... So I decided to read the signs instead :P And as we went deeper into the exhibition, there were more English signs so we learnt quite a view things. I think we spent around 2 hours in there, maybe 3.

When we came out, the sun had started to set so we took the metro to go to Roppongi Hills, a sky scraper with a 360 degree view of Tokyo on the 52nd floor.

Roppongi Hills

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We arrived just in time for the sunset. We could even see a hazy silhouette of Fuji-San (honorific name for Mount Fuji). We took a lot of pictures of the sunset, the city at night and Tokyo Tower which a broadcast tower that looks like an orange-smaller-version of the Eifel Tower. It was also a bit romantic :P

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Fuji-san

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This bench was white until you sat on it and the more weight there was, the brighter the color was (I want one!)

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There was a store at the bottom of the building selling art things because there also an art museum in it. They had a couple of Murakami merchandise that was hard to resist (but I managed to) and some merchandise from an artist that I didn't know but was glad to discover.

Seems like there's a statue of "Maman" in Tokyo too

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We were starting to get hungry and Nath had spotted an organic vegetarian restaurant in her book about Japanese food. Ironically the restaurant was in Harajuku so we went there for the 3rd time.

After a small stop at Kiddyland we found the said restaurant named "Mominoki House". I took a Japanese "quille" (a 633ml bottle of beer) an Nath some sake. The food was good but not amazing except for the bowl of brown rice. The services were also served a bit too fast and I felt like I didn't have time to take the time to have a nice supper with my chick.

We took the long road to go to the metro station to see Takeshita street at night, came back to the hotel and went to bed.