16 Jan, Saturday

Today we decided to go to Nippori to see the "Nippori Fabric Town" and walk around Yaneka Cemetary. We had one false start leaving the hotel - it was *really* cold and we needed extra warm beanies to beat the cold wind. Once we were suitably rugged up we could take the Maranouchi line to Shinjuku and the Yamanote line to Nippori.

We didn't know where Nippori Fabric Town was from the station, but luckily there were big signs and maps. Chrissy didn't have a particular shop to go to, but as we walked, we started to see bolts of fabric piled up outside every shop. Eventually, Chrissy recognised the name of one, "Tomato" and we had a look.

Well, it was full of fabric.

After Tomato, we walked a little and found more shops... also called Tomato... Chrissy found a goth loli sewing magazine and bought that. I got a little bit worried because there was a group of Americans around carrying bags and bags of fabric... the ladies just kept buying more and the guys were saying things like "Oh let's just take these to the post office now and then you can send home more later". NOOOO! Chrissy don't turn into them!!

In the end, Chrissy didn't buy any fabric and we walked on to our next adventure - a walk around Yaneka cemetary area. Notable things were: our wrong turn towards and extremely cute primary school and kids playing with kites in the park and the hand purifying stations which were totally iced over.

After a lunch of small breads we headed to Roppongi Hills on the train. It took a while to get there, but we ended up in the Mori Art Gallery which is on the 53rd floor of a huge building. The exhibition was about medicine, life and anatomy and was very interesting with pieces in all styles from all kinds of periods. It was a HUGE gallery.

We also got to see the view from the 52nd floor off the Mori Building which has viewing platforms all the way around. It was really pretty and we stayed around for over an hour looking at the sunset and watching the lights of Tokyo turn on. The entire sky line was clear --- except for Mt. Fuji which was hidden in clouds.

We headed home finally and bought a freshness burger for dinner. We are so worn out!