Friday night
It’s been a long time since I spent a proper Friday night out in a big city. And Tokyo certainly makes up for it. The energy of the city is absolutely amazing, just wandering around there is so much visual and sound stimulus- exactly what I need to relax. A few choice quotes of the night that shows the positive tone of the evening:
Waiter (in English): “Do you speak Japanese?”
Reply (in Japanese): “I am Japanese”
Me: “Oh, it’s a shrine, well you Japanese are so polite, I thought that maybe the bowing was just a really polite way to enter the restaurant”
Great dinner at a Korean restaurant, I got so caught up in the conversation I only managed to take one photo of the special vegetable selection (that ended up being steamed, and was truly amazing):