Japan 2014 Roppongi Mori Art Museum

Maman the spider at Roppongi Hills

View from the Sky Deck

Japan 2014 Shinjuku Rainy Shopping Day

Very greasy sesame oil tonkotsu ramen noodles for lunch; seafood hot pot for dinner, with Hairy crab and Fugu fish. Bought a pair of fancy lamb skin black pumps from 京王百貨店 (Keio)

Japan 2014 What's Dinner? Kobe Beef!

The first day at Tokyo has been perfect. Post Hot Spring dinner: Kobe beef at Garuva. 

Address: Aqua City Odaiba, 6F

1-7-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo

The journal begins with Beef Tongue grilled...

Various cut of A-5 Kobe beef! (黒毛和牛A5) 

Plum wine and meat!

Kobe Beef Belly!

View from the restaurant

Statue of Liberty outside of the Aqua City

Japan 2014 Ō-Edo Onsen Monogatari

Hot spring + snacking...what's better?

(And with some strange Manga theme going on)

Squid balls!

Having grilled meat with Uncle

Japan 2014 Great Buddha of Kotokuin

Great Buddha of Kotokuin (高徳院)

For less than 5 cents, you could go in Buddha's tummy...

Giant grass shoes

Japan 2014 Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū

Kamakura (鎌倉市) with Aunt and Uncle

First stop: Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū (鶴岡八幡宮)

These peonies do not look real. But they are...

Japanese traditional wedding gown

Lunch: fish soup Ramen. My first bowl of Ramen this trip. Awesome! Very clean flavor, not fishy at all.

OK...I was just interested in the wedding gown again.

First sighting of cherry blossom. People were going nutty around the tree.

Wishes...I heard that my Aunt's son used to wish on these cards that he would not make mistakes during math test...