Okonomiyaki!

The best part of okonamiyaki, besides eating it, is preparing it. You sit around a hotplate do all the prep yourself, stir frying the vegetables and liquid mix and then adding some mochi and cheese, afterwards you thin it out so that it all cooks through. You eat it by scraping away a little bit at a time...yuuummm....
ps afterwards, you must go home and shower - this is not a date food!!

Sakura of a different variety

This sakura is outside of Ken's parents' home, it's a different type than the sakura shown earlier and blooms later.

Amore, Amore, Amore!!

So this is probably the best Italian food I've ever had, the restaurant is in Nogizaka and it's called Amore - there is no menu, you come in and ask for salad, pasta, main course and out comes the food - on this day

we had a pasta hotaru-ika (firefly squid [in season right now]) - which was tomato based sauce with baby squid, eggplant and basil a beet salad and
horse steak with potatoes - it was really really good!!!

Later

For lunch we went to Nakamoto for some ramen - this place is known for spicy ramen, Ken had #9 and it was very very unforgiving for the rest of the day, hehe. He also didn't finish it, he had about 2/3 and then we left.
The next picture was inside a restaurant we went to for dinner, we had daikon salad, homemade tofu and some fried chicken.
Some sakura at night, it's lit up and glows pink - pretty awesome if I may say so myself...

A random wild japanese cat we saw in the gardens of a nearby hotel where we went to look at some sakura.

And some more sakura...

This is some sakura that grows by our apartment. In the first picture, the tallest building is our future apartment, but we haven't been there yet because it's still under construction.
The weather is perfect, low sixties...
On this path, people camp out and have huge picnics - they call it "sakura watching" - it basically means drinking under the sakura :)

Sakura - finally!!!

At the top, is a hotel by our apartment in Akasaka.
Bottom: This is Ken's friends' place - a lot of land, a pond, a beautiful restaurant with traditional japanese food. The sakura was at its best!

Turkos are Everywhere

This is just for fun ;)


Here are some rather cool pictures from Roppongi Hills sky deck and in front of the tower..