Tokyo Day 1

Dawn from our hotel room window. first cup of green tea - even the hotel sencha is good

spicy instant ramen for a super-early breakfast - we managed to pick this up last night at a store in Ginza.

actually, this was mine, which was not so spicy at all. Ritesh had a spicy one, but I didn't take a picture...

plastic crepe display on Takeshita Dori

another breakfast just off Takeshita Dori, getting ready to explore the Meji shrine and garden: Some more green tea, with two kinds of rice ball - one triangle wrapped in seaweed and filled with something that might have been spicy tuna, and a round one covered with something sausagey. All very tasty.

After the Meji Shrine, in Yoyogi park, we stumbled on what we now know to have been our first Takoyaki:

at this stall:green superfood drink and veggie goodies with miso dips at a veggie fair between Yoyogi Park and Shibuya

Iced tea at Starbucks, only for the location on the second floor overlooking the mad diagonal intersection in front of Shibuya station. Note that Starbucks in Japan does not carry green tea. Or rather, the only way to get green tea at a Starbucks in Japan is as a green tea latte. Hmm...

ok macaron, but lame flavor. Reminds me of a much better Japanese-flavored macaron I had in LA - ume and black sesame.

fried veggies and some meat at a bar in the Golden Gai near Shinjuku

some extra: green onion, tomato, asparagus - and two bananas for dessert!

spicy shoju w/ ooba and chili

Not such a good day for food just yet but just wait... we're just getting started...