Saturday i woke up late, as usual. And decided to do something interesting, for a change. I googled a bit, and found a few good guides for sightseeing Tokyo. I checked the interesting places on the map, decided on a best possible route, and set off. I started at the Yasukuni shrine, best known as the memorial place for all the japanese soldiers fallen. It’s close to the park where we were watching flowers last spring. It’s a shinto shrine with all there is to that word, torii, small other shrines hidden in the shades of trees, people praying, shrine maidens (first time i’ve seen the traditional red and white outfit outside of Inuyasha), though i couldn’t find the list of the fallen, which would’ve been interesting. After that i went to Shibuya, bought myself something in a sport shop, and walked off on the Aoyama ave, among all those fancy shops, all the way to Omotesando, where i turned my way towards the Roppongi Hills. I walked in small streets, in an apparently insanely rich environment (Ferrari and Porsche weren’t surprising), Nishi-Azabu (you know that, right?), and stumbled upon an antiquities shop. It had plenty of toy bears, i thought i’d buy one for my gran, but the cheapest one was 30 thousand yen (from sometime mid-20th century, which isn’t all that old). True, it had nobility walking sticks, and even pottery from 1600 BC (i didn’t dare ask the price of that). Soon later i arrived at Roppongi Hills, realised i’ve been close by before. Went up the tower, first to the sky deck, then the two exhibitions there. A guy, certain 小松原智史 was drawing the picture right there.