Japanese cuisine Kaiseki II

Next is grilled fish, or tempura and indispensable to Kaiseki and to any Japanese course is a bowl of rice, miso soup and pickled vegetables. At last a desserts of seasonal fruits.

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Japanese cuisine Kaiseki

Kaiseki cuisine is a multi course traditional Japanese meal, served on traditional restaurants.


Tea and appetizers are served before the main dish, steamed vegetables on a decorated bowl.


Each one of them dishes are presented in special plates that further enhance them, like this dish of “eda mame”, eel sushi, tempura and egg on a leaf plate, additionally cubed meat on a tall cup.
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Ginza shopping district

Ginza is one of the most luxurious shopping destinations in the world; the most famous brands have their flagship stores there.


One of the main streets is closed to traffic on weekends and becomes a popular shopper’s pedestrian zone.


A Takuhatsu Buddhist monk collecting donations in Ginza.
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Festival at Hakusan shrine

Tokyo’s Hakusan shrine celebrates the Hydrangea festival in early summer.


Hydrangea flowers surround the temple and provide a colorful welcome to worshipers.


Paper lanterns at an ablution pavilion at the shrine.

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Japanese glass wind chime

wind chime Japanese wind chimes’ street vendors are a common sight in the summer, when they cruise the streets with a large collection in display.



The Fuuri wind chimes are then hanged by the window pane and the sound of the fresh air coming in, provides a refreshing harmony to cool off the summer.
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Shibuya crossing

Shibuya is one of the three Tokyo sub cities (the other two are Shinjuku and Harajuku) that represent the main Japanese business districts. It is the city of young people that with harajuku are the source of Asia’s trendiest fashions for Asia.



Shibuya Station opened on 1885, and with 2.7 million passengers on an average weekday is the third-busiest commuter rail station in Japan after Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro.



The famous pedestrian scramble crossing at Hachiko exit, served as location for movies “lost in translation” and the “fast and the furious: Tokyo drift”, the starbucks in the crossing is one of the busiest in the world.

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Senbei (rice crackers)

Senbei's makers working at a traditional store in the Asakusa area.
Senbei are rice crackers flavored normally with soy saucem, mirin, and nori, grilled or baked.



Shoppers lining to buy fresh made senbei.
Senbei is a popular snack offered to visitors, normally accompanied with green tea.

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Maman at Roppongi Hills

Maman sculpture by French artist Louise Bourgeois is part of the permanent public art exhibition of Mori Art museum at the plaza of roppongi hills.



Similar sculptures are in display at several other locations like London's Tate museum, St Petersburg's Hermitage, and Bilbao's Guggenheim.



The sculpture is 10 meters tall and made entirely of bronze, with the exception of the marble eggs on the spider belly.

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