Day in Tokyo with Jess

Jess and I started our Tokyo adventure out at the shopping mecca of Roppongi Hills. 

Here is the "Top Hat Building"

Sure Roppongi Hills is a tall building, but this was a hazy, rainy day!

A pretty cool spider sculpture called "Maman".

The Roppongi Garden is beautiful even in the rain.

The view from the top of Mori Tower was completely blocked from the fog, rain, and haze!!  Such a bummer...

You can barely make out the massive Roppongi Hills condominiums. 

So we moved on the Mori Art Museum instead, where the weather didn't matter!

Here's a cool exhibit of delicate, intricate trees made totally out of fast food and/or retail shopping bags!

It's supposed to remind us that bags really do come from trees.

This looks like a pretty cool skateboard ramp :)

The Toy Story room at the Tokyo Disney Store.

Jess says this is a Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga billboard, but I was clueless...

A funny little store in Shibuya: Condomania, with a motto of "Give Safe Sex A Chance".

Shibuya Crossing in the rain... all of the umbrellas are kind of cool!

The busiest crosswalk in the world!

View from our hotel room.  I did a good job finding this awesome hotel on the web, but finding the entrance in person was another story...  Always tricky since the streets don't have names and hotels don't have addresses...

And my quote of the day: 

You can't say Shibuya without the "Boo Ya"!

View in the morning... Tokyo likes to sleep in!

Thank goodness it's a sunny day.  We are ready for our bus tour of the city!

Check out this neat double-decker train!  I have no idea where it takes you from Tokyo, but I certainly want to go for a ride!

Jess is a true Japanese in this pic.  She's riding the shinkansen (bullet train) and eating a mochi treat (pressed rice with a surprise inside--hopefully not the dreadful red bean paste!)