Woke up around 6 am this morning but lounged around a bit before heading down for a quick egg and bacon sando before seeing out for Ginza.

Took the Marunouchi subway line one stop to Ginza and walked around.   Ginza is known for its many high end restaurants, stores and art galleries.  

As we were a bit early,  a lot of stores were not yet opened; however, the 10 floor stationary store,  Itoya, was opened so we managed to spend about an hour and a half looking around.   So much stuff!  Getting cards, craft supplies,  wallets,  agendas, pencils, colored pens and expensive pens,  including an $11,000 pen!  Definitely,  wouldn’t want someone asking to borrow that one.

Then checked out the Matsuya department store food floor – so much food that looked so good.  No places to eat there so we ended up going for ramen at a nice place down the road.

Had a craft beer with the ramen that was quite hoppy.

We then spent over an hour going through the Uniqlo flagship store that had 12 floors and about a billion tourists.  Had a whole floor of graphic t-shirts so I ended up buying a couple.

Afterwards,  considered getting a drink at the Lions Beer Hall,  which was built before the Second World War.   However,  there was a line and we weren’t interested waiting in line so wandered back towards the metro, first locating our restaurant for dinner and then stopping at a chopstick store,  which sold some expensive chopsticks.

The Ginza metro station feels very slick and high end and had some art work on display, including this glittering piece:

Got back to Tokyo Station and had a couple of beer at a place on the second floor before heading back to the hotel for a quick break before dinner.

After a very short nap and a shower,  we headed out for our nice kaiseki dinner at a place in Ginza.   Took the metro line there and walked the couple of blocks to the restaurant,  Ginza Adachi Naoto.  Small place with 6 seats at the bar and two tables for 4 people each.   Dinner was a 9 course kaiseki dinner.  

The meal includes various types of courses including a soup course,  a sashimi course, a tempura course and a dessert.  The dessert was a great pink grapefruit and milk custard that was a great finale to the meal.   We had some sake to start and then some white wine.

After the 2.5 hour dinner we headed back to our hotel as I was definitely feeling sleepy.   Also needed to pack up and get some sleep before my shinkansen ride tomorrow to Hokkaido.