Thursday, 27th November

Chrissy: Today was awesome.

We went to the Ghibli museum today! It was quite a long trip. First we had to take the train to Shinjuku, then transfer to another line to get to Mitaka. It was really cold and wet! I was not wearing enough clothes. We walked for about 20 minutes to get to the Museum. It was a beautiful place with lots of trees and lovely houses. Our entry ticket to the museum was a still from a Miyazaki movie. I got Kiki on her broomstick! The museum was really busy but enjoyable. I thought it was lovely because there were all sorts of people there. There were two German punks and lots of little Japanese kids and some other foreigners and older Japanese. We watched a great short film about an adventure that happened to Mei after the Totoro film. All the museum exhibitions were great, except for one called Mini Louvre, which was full of copies of Renaissance painings. They were mostly nudes and were a bit weird. The gift shop was RIDICULOUSLY crowded. I could hardly move around at all.

We had lunch at a nearby bakery. The buns were really cute. One was shaped like a frog, which had sweet custard in it.

We went back to the hotel to rug up some more, then went out to Ginza again. Chucky wanted to see the Sony Building and the Apple store. We also went to UNIQLO, a big clothing shop. All I found there was some purple tights. And they weren't even a very bright purple. I bought an ARASHI single and CD. YAY!

Around 6pm, took train to Roppongi. Ate dinner in some fast food place, wasn't very good. I didn't eat enough because it wasn't great. After dinner we walked far enough along the road so that we could see Tokyo Tower in all its orangeness. It's huge! We were really tired from our long day, so we didn't get all the way up to it. We took some photos and started to walk back, stopping in some shops on the way. I bought a cute live green skivvy with little flowers on it, and some socks for Emi and me. They were 3 pairs for 1000 yen, how could I resist?

It turns out that it's a really long way from Tokyo Tower to our hotel. We found this out after we got back to our hotel. It was a fun walk though, because there were lots of interesting places to look at and also some art and illuminations.