Travel Blog: Gift Shopping / Synthesizer Heaven / Last Sushi Dinner

Got up and didn't have anything planned for today, so we opted for starting by going to Shibuya and stopping by our favorite French pastry shop for breakfast. These pastries are so good I just don't think words will properly describe their indulgent quality. Hilary and I even made a little movie about them.

After putting on some serious pastry kilos, we decided to walk it off heading over to Ebisu. We walked around there a bit and stopped by a shopping center top pick up a few gifts for the family. After that we hopped to the JR train (still using the pass!) to Harajuku to check out a synthesizer store Atsushi told me about. I spotted it on the 4th floor of a narrow building; definitely not something that stands out. Hilary was a good sport and went with me. The shop was packed wall to wall with vintage synthesizers and modular synthesizers, drum machines, analog EQ's, tape delays, and even an old Korg vocoder. Kodomo likes. I wanted it all. Hilary started playing a Brian Adams song on one of the modular synths. It sounded something like: beep beep beep beep beep / beep beep beep beep beep / beep beep beep / beep / beep / beep beep beep beep beep /

We left the store and headed back to Shibuya to do some final shopping. We had pretty much gotten everything we could carry, so we sat down and had a little lunch at a Japanese / French cafe at the top of a hill in Shibuya, right by Tokyu Hans. We ordered a salad with roasted pork and a perfectly cooked hardboiled egg. The dressing was light and delicious.

After lunch, we were totally beat and out of things to do, so we went back to our old hotel we stayed at in Shibuya and just chilled in the lobby for a bit using our iPhones to catch up on email and read about the election results.

Since it was our last night here, we decided to go for sushi at Midori, the spot we went when we first landed. We ordered all our favorites; tamago (egg), bin-cho maguro, toro, uni, and negitoro. For desert, we bought a little mochi on the food floor of the department store. I'll miss the endless maze of food options here in Tokyo!

We got back to our hotel and decided to watch the next episode of LOST.