I woke up later than expected and set off rather late. Seeing it was almost 12pm when I reached Roppongi, I decided to have brunch at Midtown. Came across this bagel place called Junoesque Bagel Cafe and they had a lunch set at ¥800 that came with a bagel, fries and soup. I picked the Pumpkin & Earl Grey bagel and clam chowder soup.
Didn't really taste the pumpkin or earl grey in the bagel, but there was a nice light fragrance to the taste and it wasn't overly heavy as bagels usually were (or maybe because I was hungry). They gave a rather generous dollop of thick cream cheese which I now regret not spreading everything. And the fries. They were one of the best fries I've eaten. They were the shoestring kind and so crisp and full of flavor. That was rather unexpected. A rather enjoyable meal except for the matcha cafe latte that I ordered separately. Matcha and coffee don't really seem to mix well. I shall stick to simply matcha latte next time.
After the brunch, I proceeded to my intended location, the
National Art Center, Tokyo (yes, I'm not going Roppongi to shop...those shops are just way above my limits).
There were a few exhibitions going on, 2 paying ones and 1 free one. I decided to go for the Hiroji Noda exhibition (¥1,000) as recommended by the information staff. It was a good choice and a few of his artworks gained my fancy, even though they were contemporary in style. The exhibition included more than a hundred pieces of his works and they were mainly a very different acrylic on canvas series, some involving mixed media creations. No photo-taking allowed though. When I have time, I will do a separate post on it. That took me almost 2 hours, and after that, I took a quick walk around the free calligraphy exhibition by their artists' association before rushing off to meet V. It was huge! I nearly got lost finding my way around. I'm not well-versed in calligraphy even though I used to do some of it in primary school, but it was interesting seeing some of them; there were really colorful ones that they looked like water colour paintings and the subjects painted were rather different from the traditional ones we're used to.
The rest of the day saw me shopping again (at Shibuya) where I bought quite a few t-shirts. There was a nice tee shop (Arton) that lets you pick from a whole range of designs and once you pick your design and tee, they will print the t-shirt there and then. I think it's a great concept so you don't waste the t-shirts. But it's a bit pricey though at ¥2,500 for 1 piece, so I only bought one. You get discounts though when you buy more. I went to Uniqlo (again) and bought a wool coat on discount at ¥5990 (about S$100), which I think was quite worthed it, considering it stated it was 100% wool. Also bought 2 t-shirts there. Shucks, think I'm buying too many t-shirts already. But the Uniqlo t-shirts were just ¥990 each and had Snoopy characters and Winnie the Pooh, not that I was a huge fan of the latter, but my nephew is.
Dinner was at Watami which was super cheap! Ok, we didn't order much and shared our stuff, but the bill came up to only ¥1,200 which works out to be only ¥600 per person. My afternoon tea at Tully's with just a tea and donut was already that amount.
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