Showing posts with label harajuku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harajuku. Show all posts

Sep 21, 2014

Harajuku, Omotesando, Shibuya and Ebisu tour / 原宿-表参道-渋谷-恵比寿ツアー

I gave an evening tour of Harajuku, Omotesando, Shibuya and Ebisu to an Indian guy from San Francisco.

久しぶりに原宿、表参道、渋谷と恵比寿の夜のツアー。
今回の人はサンフランシスコに在住のインド人。

He wanted to see art and architecture in Tokyo which was quite unusual, but I became excited because art and architecture are my favourite things.

珍しくアートと建築を見たいとお客さんからのリクエスト。私は、びっくりするやら、嬉しいやら•••

Wishing I were a kid again!
We met at Kiddy Land at 6PM and walked to Takeshita street to see young Japanese girls.

原宿のKiddy Landで18時に会って竹下通りへ。

Church or mall?
We walked to Omotesando Hills to see Tadao Ando's architecture.

その後は安藤さんの建築物を見に表参道ヒルズに行った。

After that I took him to Aoyama to experience Prada by Herzog & de Meuron.

安藤さんの建築の後はもちろん青山のプラダでヘルツォーク&ド・ムーロン。

I felt lucky that COMME des GARÇONS was still open, so we took the opportunity to see their new outfits for this fall.

コムデギャルソンがまだ開いていたのでコムデギャルソンで服を見学。

We walked to United Nation University, then we saw Taro Okamoto's sculpture.

その後は国連大学の側にある岡本太郎の彫刻を鑑賞。

Since Nonbei Yokocho was on the way to get to the scramble crossing, we walked through Nonbei Yokocho quickly to see tiny bars.

渋谷駅に行く途中にあるのんべい横町をちょっとだけ見た。

We needed some break from a long walk; we sat on the 2nd floor of Starbucks in front of the scramble crossing and I had some caramel pudding frappuccino.

いっぱい歩いて疲れたのでスクランブル交差点のスタバでキャラメルプディングフラペチーノで休憩。

Frozen sake
We said hello to Hachiko statue at Shibuya station, saw a big painting of Taro Okamoto, then took JR to visit Ebisu for frozen sake at buri and lovely yuzushio tsukemen at Afuri.

渋谷駅にあるハチ公にこんばんはをして渋谷駅の二階にある大きな岡本太郎の絵画を見てから山手線で恵比寿へ。

恵比寿にあるフローズンのお酒でテレビでも話題になっていたバーのburiで初めてのフローズンのお酒を飲み、そしてゆず塩ラーメンで有名なAfuriでゆず塩つけ麺を楽しんだ。

Yuzushio tsukemen
The yuzushio tsukemen was the perfect way to end my tour!

最後のAfuriのゆず塩つけ麺の締めが良かったなぁ〜

Jan 5, 2013

Harajuku / 原宿

After reading a lot about how popular pancakes are in Tokyo, I finally got to eat the famous pancakes at bills in Omotesando.

Their fluffy pancakes were delicious. A sliced banana looking honeycomb butter made these pancakes richer!

去年から気になっていた噂のパンケーキ。日本のヴォーグでもbillsは取り上げられていたので行けて嬉しかった〜

パンケーキはふかふかの生地で美味しかった。最初はバナナかと思って口に入れたハニーバター。パンケーキと一緒に食べたハニーのバターはパンケーキの味を一層リッチに。

They had many art books and some modern art on the wall.

中のインテリアはアートの本とモダンアートが店内の壁をおおっていた。
Because Takeshita street was on our way to bills, we walked through the crowded Takeshita street like a tourist.

billsに行く途中に竹下通りがあったので観光客のように普通ならさける竹下通りを通ったり。

When we went to bills, we were told the waiting was going to be about 2 hours and half, thus we visited Meiji shrine as Hatsumode.

I was hoping Meiji shrine won't be as crowded as bills since today was 4th of January, but still... there was a big line to visit the shrine!

お正月も三日を終えたから明治神宮はそんなに混んでないかなと期待してお参りに行ったらめちゃめちゃ混んでいた。

Although everywhere we went was crowded, Mia was a good baby, so we all enjoyed going out.

今回はどこも混んでいたので娘は期限が悪くなるかなと思ったけど、思ったよりもぐずらずに楽しくお出かけできて良かった〜