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Hara Museum is Shinagawa is a pretty cool spot. It’s a small museum that has changing exhibitions, but also has a permanent room by Yoshitomo Nara. I couldn’t take a photo of it. I think it was the only room that had a videocamera watching. The above image was in a room by some french artist. Yeah, it’s like a bathroom or something, but it’s also like TRON! Akihabara – retro game hunting. There’s a reason for it. Junk at Akihabara. Japanese junk looks cool. You really don’t know what you’re going to get. That’s the sculpture Garden at Hara Museum. Next to Kohei’s face is a vertical piece of metal which is an Isamu Noguchi piece. Tai Yaki and they don’t even cut out the extra parts Too many toy figures. They’re everywhere. retro games at Super Potato. You’d think this spot is the best, and it’s quite great, but in the end, it’s the most expensive too. Ice cream in a baguette, yes it totally works. That’s Taro Goto on the right. He used to be part of the SF Asian Film Festival. He led us to an Okinawan spot in Shibuya. Super great. Sadatoshi shows off ice cream.
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Ayako Fujitani and her new old camera. It shoots 35mm and although film is a dying breed, this is a cool rangefinder. I think it's called a bosley, but I'm no longer sure. Who's going to preserve the film cameras as digital everything takes over? When will film just be cancelled? It's all in the hands of the fans. Meanwhile, we went through Ueno area, and ate some yakitori.

That's spanish mackerel...
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Ayako Fujitani and her new old camera. It shoots 35mm and although film is a dying breed, this is a cool rangefinder. I think it’s called a bosley, but I’m no longer sure. Who’s going to preserve the film cameras as digital everything takes over? When will film just be cancelled? It’s all in the hands of the fans. Meanwhile, we went through Ueno area, and ate some yakitori. That’s spanish mackerel pate! It looks like I have a blonde mullet in this frame. That’s what it would look like with a neckwarmer. If I was Canadian, maybe. Not good. Now flip it to yourself. Imagine you with a blonde mullet. No! Don’t rock that. I wonder if the woman sitting behind me would have ever thought her hair would be used so well in the background of a photo. Yakitori is always good. No… amazing. Hand it over! This is what a public bath employee used to do way back in the day. If you want to take a bath, this guy lords over the entrance and peeps at the ladies changing. The flowers are almost gone from the trees. This is in Ueno park. It’s cool how there’s tons of vendors dealing up Japanese snacks. Saigo Takemori in Ueno. I haven’t been to this park in perhaps more than 15 years. I’ll guess that’s a shiba inu. This isn’t good. This is good. It’s awesome how they sell great slices of fruit on the street. Too bad they have to use chopsticks, but the fruit was good. Thankfully, the chopsticks absorb water well, and the fruit sticks! Since fruit is pricey in Japan, you sort of don’t get to eat much of it, so when you do it’s refreshing.
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We hope into a tiny restaurant in Ebisu and there's 4 cats inside. The cat pictured above is 23 years old. It's the oldest cat I've ever seen or maybe heard of. When it walks down the main walkway in this tiny restaurant, it's meowing, I suppose sort of gaining as much attention as she can, literally defining what a "Catwalk" is all about. This restaurant was quite good, and I wonder if the cat's...
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We hope into a tiny restaurant in Ebisu and there’s 4 cats inside. The cat pictured above is 23 years old. It’s the oldest cat I’ve ever seen or maybe heard of. When it walks down the main walkway in this tiny restaurant, it’s meowing, I suppose sort of gaining as much attention as she can, literally defining what a “Catwalk” is all about. This restaurant was quite good, and I wonder if the cat’s been getting fed special food. This wouldn’t happen in LA, or in many other places in America, yet, the food was still good, and seemed quite safe and clean. Things like this make Tokyo, Tokyo. The cat does look for attention when walking down the aisle. It’s funny to see how people react to the cats. I love seeing Japanese restaurants do this. They have these bowls of their small veggie dishes out ready to serve. Definitely not proud of this one: but I ate horse. It ends up being pretty good, but in the end, I’m way over it. What’s the difference between eating horse, cat, a cow or a pig? Nothing. We’re all in the same gang – mammals. But I still won’t eat this again. Then it’s back to gyoza. This was amazing and who knows what was in it.
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