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I can’t believe it was the very first time for me to come to Shin Marubiru, nevertheless it’s been 5 years since it was built. There is Marubiru next to Shin Marubiru, but I’ve visited Marubiru only once in 10 years. I have no idea why I don’t feel like coming over this area. For the women in 30s, Marunouchi area should be much more quiet and comfortable than Shibuya, Harajuku or Shinjuku area. The interior of the whole building is gorgeous. (I forgot to take pictures, because I was busy checking the architectural material like I always did when I was working as a house renovation planner.) ^ ^;;

Tokyo is my friend’s area. At first when I heard that she took a reservation for lunch, I thought if it’s necessary. But I learned she was right, right after I entered the restaurant. It was full of people eating lunch. I believe most of them are company employees working nearby.

I wonder how the night view is going to be…But I already enjoyed this view, in spite of the cloudy weather.

I forgot to take a menu photo…but there were 2 kind of lunch of the day, and unfortunately they were sold out when we ordered them at 12:10pm. Hmm…it was only 12:10, we were not so late but we had bad luck. Both of the lunch of the day were costed 1200yen, and all the other lunch sets were priced like 1800yen or even more…except for what we ordered.

This is called hayashi rice. It’s a sort of westernized Japanese dish like curry rice, omurice, and etc. I love this kind of Japanese dish as known as Youshoku! A plate for hayashi rice, small salad and Hojicha (roasted green tea) were served and it was 1200yen. It was good Hojicha is refilled as many times as we wanted.

But personally I wished more hayashi rice on the plate. Well, it’s possible most of Japanese women are satisfied with this amount, but to me it was a bit too small…:p I ordered a cup of coffee for 580yen after the meal. Considering that the most of restaurants offer a lunch set from a main dish, salad and a cup of coffee under 1200yen or so, the price in this restaurant is set higher. Yet, as it turned out we stayed there chatting and chatting until there were almost no other customers, so it was not expensive. :p Many restaurants give us the air that we have to leave if we don’t order more, but this place wasn’t like that.

We passed Tokyo station on the way back. Tokyo station has been under reconstruction for several years. It was originally constructed in 1914, but was damaged in World War 2. The restoration is to remain exact same facade as the original one, as original design was so beautiful and nice.

I told myself why not come back to Tokyo again for more exploration. What about you?

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As you can see, it’s a modern type of Japanese cafe that serves Japanese beverages such as matcha latte and Japanese desserts like matcha cake, anmitsu, kinako, and etc. By the way, here’s a sample of traditional Japanese cafe. For those who may love such traditional type of cafe, I’ll share with you the cafe info. just in case.

Mihashi
nearest train station: Ueno (There are some branch stores in Tokyo and Chiba.)
phone: 03-3831-0384
address: 4-9-7 Ueno, Taitou-ku, Tokyo
open: 10:30am – 9:30pm

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Actually Mihashi is way more popular than nana’s green tea.
Getting back to the nana’s green tea cafe, I only ordered a matcha latte, but I thought I should have ordered something sweet as well. It was a little bit too bitter and it must be great with something sweet.

The interior was relaxing although the cafe space was a little tight and narrow. It must be more crowded and so it should not be as relaxing as this on weekends…

Maybe I want to try something sweets and more next time.
Do you like matcha and Japanese desserts?

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This Ramen restaurant seemed still new.

My husband selected a set of ramen, rice and boiled gyoza (dumpling), while I ordered salt flavored ramen. Both of us got a bonus Ajitama (half-boiled egg seasoned with soy sauce and dashi) because we had Gurunavi coupon. ^ ^ As is usual with some Ramen restaurants, Oomori (large portion) is the same price as regular portion. This doesn’t make me happy if I am alone, but I ordered Oomori because my husband could help me finish it. ^ ^;

I liked these bite-sized boiled gyoza that came with my husband’s ramen set.

I’ve never tasted chicken char siu before. (Char siu is a Chinese-styled barbecued pork. It’s usually pork.) Compared with pork, chicken smells less and it was less oily. But hmm…I think I’ll prefer pork char siu. The soup was also less oily, which was my taste. To be exact, I felt dashi taken from fish in the soup. I think that Japanese taste makes ramen less oily. I don’t like ramen soup with too much oil.

The noodle was thick and straight (not frizzed or curly). I personally prefer thin frizzed noodles but I thought the noodle was matching with the soup. The mianma (the brown one in the picture, which is actually Chinese bamboo shoot sliced and seasoned) was yummy. Ajitama was so delicious by the way. I liked their ramen. ^ ^

The Crystal Bowls music live or a healing session was held in this shrine. I’m not sure if I should call it a concert or a session or a workshop. It was the first time for us to listen to Jun Makino’s performing live Crystal Bowls. I quite liked his CD book.

We were allowed to lie down on the tatami and many people naturally fell asleep, thanks to the healing sounds. However, tatami floor was too hard for my body shape and I felt quite uncomfortable with my back and it was also cold in spite of the air-cons’ being fully operated. I fell asleep while I was sitting before I knew…

Jun Makino’s Crystal Bowls are not just white. Crystal Bowls sounds are considered effective for healing and good for health. I expected I’d love the live music much more than the CD, but my honest thought is that I’m quite OK with CD music to which I can listen from home. Home is the most relaxing place to me. I don’t like to sit or lie on a tatami floor.

Well, I was supposed to write two different posts categorized two different categories, but this time I made it one. Sorry if it was confusing to you. It’s just another daily life of mine from Tokyo! Hope you had a nice weekend!

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