Getting old in Shibuya

What a day to wake up: A sunny spring like Saturday in Tokyo.
In Denmark you have a saying "If the weather is great on your birthday, it meant you have been a good girl" :-)
The day we dedicated to shopping and browsing. We never made it to half the places we wanted to go to. Tokyo is way too big. We did made it to Tokyu Hands, where we stumbled over things like CD holders that blink according to the sound in the room and tea-kettles in the shape of giraffes among the largest selection of handyman stuff we have ever seen.
For lunch, we went to Paris, as we passed a good French place. How to tell it was good? Well, there was quite a line in front of it. In Japan it seems perfectly normal, that you have to wait an hour or so to get a table at a well reputedly place.
It was all worth it. The restaurant was located on the first floor of a patisserie and decorated like a classic brasserie. For a couple of French food lovers like us, we indulged our selves in foie gras, lamb and red wine while we enjoyed the jazz-tones that filled up the room.
Celebrating your birthday in Tokyo, but feeling like in Paris is kind of neat!

After lunch we went people watching you never get tired of that in Tokyo. Just to give you an idea of the diversity of the Tokyo citizens, the guidebook lists 13 different kinds of types to look for. All types you don't seem to find any where else.

The nights restaurant hunt, resulted in a great place in the Shibuya district. We were seated in the bar with perfect view to the action of the sushi chefs. Someone ordered Fresh slices of mackerel. The chef grabbed a fishnet and went for the fish tank. Back he came with a twirling mackerel.
The mackerels friends were staring from the fish tank as the chef quickly filleted the fish. While the chef arranged the fresh sashimi, the fish was still twirling even though it was naked right to the bone, literary spoken. Now, that is fresh mackerel!
We went for something less alive, accompanied with something as great as six different kinds of Sake!

Afterwards, we took a stare at one of the karaoke palaces and said hmmm...next time...

We know it was not much of a birthday in the traditional way of gifts and cake and family get together - but that is one of the many prices you pay for living abroad, - and a little adventure in the big city is an ok drug to cover up the fact that we miss being with you all.