It was another beautiful morning in Tokyo. Beth and I woke up with the early bird while the preteen was mashed to her futon dead to the world. Robin went into the e-zone (iPad) while Beth and I walked randomly through the back neighborhoods of Harajuku. I'm always amazed at how quiet Tokyo can be. One street is busy, then you duck into a cross street and you're in a quiet neighbourhood.
The girls wanted to do some shopping so I took a couple of hours to walk around and soak in more of Shibuya and the surrounding areas. I could really live here again!
I found this cool banana vending machine...
No cars! This is one of the busier high end streets in Tokyo... But where are all the cars? My guess is this city with a population of around 38 million people has half the cars that we have in the GTA. There's simply no need to have a car to get from one place to the next and they've made the cost of keeping a car prohibitively expensive and used the revenues to invest in transit. I know, blah blah blah. But even Abby and Robin, when looking at a highway today both said "where are all the cars".
Weird cart of cats that we have seen a few times...
In the afternoon we went to the new Roppongi Hills area. Very cool and very modern. There was a modern art Star Wars exhibit that was awesome..
At night we went to Shibuya for some Turkish cuisine and I piggy backed Abby on the way home....
Am loving all the videos! The girls are quite the travel correspondents! very funny seeing Robin in Claires!
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