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“Afternoon Tea” shops also sell table wares, sundry goods, etc…
The shops are always crowded with girls.
Marunouchi Shin-marunouchi building Store (Google maps)
Shibuya Mark-City Store (Google maps)
Shinjyuku Flags Store (Google maps)
Kenyan is a old famous café in Shibuya.
I-MI-tea is their most popular & proud drink, means “(I)ced (MI)lk tea” ;)
We ordered I-MI-tea with whole apple pie & whole banana pie. 1 whole
fruit in the pie!
Tsukimi is a Japanese festival honoring the first full moon of Autumn. The celebration takes place on the 14th of September on the lunisolar calendar this year.
Manju is a popular traditional Japanese confection.
There are many varieties of manju, but most have an outside made from flour, rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of an (red bean paste), made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.
We look at the moon, enjoying the beauty silence. Tsukimi also has the meaning of celebrating the autumn harvest.
I ride on Yakatabune, the traditional party boat with some friends.
the ship serves good Japanese dinner… sashimi, tofu and Tempura was served as soon as these are fried immediately.
If you’d like to ride that big group as 20 people or more, you can rent whole one Yakatabune.Or small group, you’ll ride it with other groups.
Yakatabune – Tokyo’s Party Boat (Yokoso! Japan article)
I went to Asakusa with my friend and we stopped by Funawa for sweets. We had Anmitsu and kusamochi.
Anmitsu is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae or seaweed which served in a bowl with sweet azuki bean paste or anko.
kusamochi is a rice cake mixed with yomogi. If you have a sweet tooth, you will love them!!
These are Pies”Leaf Pies”, Dry Cakes”Victoria” and stick Pies”Cheese Batons” from WEST “Japanese confectionary shop” since 1947. The Leaf Pie is made of fresh butter and flour are folded into 256 layers each by hand,it is shaped as a leaf.
Victoria is a dry cake with a specially arranged strawberry jam. Cheese Baton is using the same fresh butter as the leaf pie in the dough and mixing in Edam cheese from Holland with a strong saltiness.
These are popular items for Japanese gift-giving customs.
This is a foil-baked Hamburg steak with beef stew on and comes with rice or bread. It is made from 100% Japanese beef with chopped onions, eggs, bread crumbs.
Tsubame Grill restaurant was started business in 1930. They still offer the same nostalgic “Western” yoshoku specialties.
Isomura is a speciality shop of KUSHIAGE (fried vegetables and meat on skewer).
at the lunch time, you can choose the set that prices different in numbers of skewers. rice, miso soup, cabbage and pickles are served first. then a cookfries KUSHIAGE one by one.
Be careful about burn your tongue!! very hot & yum.
Tokyo Disney Resort will host a year-long 25th anniversary celebration under the slogan of “Unlock Your Dreams” with a variety of exciting programs held throughout the Resort.
I went to Tokyo Disney Sea with the “After 6 passport”. After 6 Passports can be used for Park admission from 6 p.m. on weekdays excluding National Holidays. the “Tower of Terror” is glowing with a weird blue light.
There is a small tea salon”MEISHA CHAKAN” which is located just a few blocks off main street at Ikebukuro in Tokyo.
They serve teas of the season from 25 kinds of chinese tea. You can enjoy the scented teas with the view of street trees.
