Tokyo 2012 - Day 7

We were woken up by vibrations and a shaking of the room at around 7 plus 8 am. I experienced my first earthquake! We were half asleep and dazed; I had to ask V if it was an earthquake. Come to think of it, it must have been quite strong to feel it like that, waking us up, like someone shaking me. I went back to sleep shortly after that though. Ha! We found out later that it was a 5.5 near Mt Fuji area. Good thing it only lasted a short time and the picture above our beds didn't drop on us. Imagine if it were any worse, my last words might have been my post last night. Well, another different Japan experience.

V went out before me as I slept in, again. Lazy me. I decided to explore the other half of the Southern Terrace and found an Afternoon Tea Room there. I've seen many branches of this around and have been curious to try it, so I went in and ordered a cream tea set which was tea with scones. Service was impeccable and they even gave me a blanket to cover my legs from the cold! There was another cafe nearby, called Delirium Cafe, but that looked more like a beer place.

I also discovered that there was an entrance to the JR Yoyogi station, so I went there to go to Ebisu to meet V to visit the Aronzo Aranzi shop.

After that, we went back to Harajuku to look at the Uniqlo t-shirt shop (UT). Bought a few t-shirts including one for a friend. Hope it fits. I loved the yellow submarine one but they didn't have my size. :(
Oh, before we went to see tees, we stopped by a dessert shop, Kyobashi Sembikiya, for a banana waffle and strawberry shortcake. The latter is slowly becoming our  winter dessert in Tokyo. The desserts were quite delectable and I think I had eaten too much cream for the day.

Didn't really do or buy much today. Well, I think I've done too much shopping already. Think the fact that we'd soon be going home is setting in. *emo*

For dinner, we went to Nijyu Maru. The izakaya (高田) we went to 3 years ago was no longer there, so we came here instead. I really liked that old place. Well, it belongs to a chain, so maybe we can try elsewhere next time.

I felt I didn't do much this trip. Wanted to visit the Imperial Palace East Gardens, but guess have to miss that. Anyway, think it'll be freezing cold walking through a park now. And they close rather early during winter, like last admission at 4pm. Think I must do more planning and wake up earlier next time.
Oh, starting my conversational Jap class coming Friday. Hopefully I can understand something too by then!

Think this should be my last post on this trip since we'll be flying back tomorrow, late night, and I won't be having any Internet access till I'm home.

Sayonara, for now.