Tokyo, Japan - Day 6

At the start of my walk this afternoon, I decided to try to find a restraunt called New York Delicatessan, located in the Hyatt.  After getting lost (sense a theme here?) both trying to find the hotel it is in (I now know that the Hyatt Regency is not the same as Park Hyatt), and on the floor the deli was located on (yes, I got lost, even knowing what floor it was on...), I was slightly disappointed to find that they did not have pastrami on rye.  And they call themselves a New York Delicatessen???

On the way, I was able to take some pix of some cool buildings.  This is the government building:

I didn't write down the name of this building, but inside it had both a skyway on the 40th floor:

And the world's largest clock!

Yeah, it's a little different than I was expecting, too.  After that, I walked to the Sumitomo building because it's 51st floor observation deck was actually free (the others cost $10 or so to walk around).  Here's a couple more views of the concrete jungle that is Tokyo.

Since I'm the one taking all the pictures, there are rarely ones of me.  Do I look like a tourist or what?  All I need is a hawiian shirt and a fanny pack.

This is called the Coccoon Building, for obvious reasons.

The drink machines, located about every 1/2 block, are ever-present.  That's a lot of plugs-ins.  BTW, there is no Diet Coke in this entire city.  It's all Coke Zero, which isn't nearly the same.

I don't know if monks have to take a vow of poverty or anything, but they sure had some sweet packs.

That evening we had dinner with Aki and Yuko again, and I was finally able to try a dish called shabu-shabu.  Basically it's a broth and vegetables heated up at the table, and then you take the reeeeaalllly thin sliced beef and swish it in the broth to cook it.  Yum.

Afterward, we went back to the red-light district so I could see it at night.  It was much cooler.

There were lots of arcades, which included a game called Pachinko.  It appeared to be a sort of slot machine, except with little metal balls, actually a little like Plinko from The Price Is Right.  Seriously.  I couldn't get a good pic, though, as this guy gave me the universal "no pictures please" sign.

Good night from Tokyo!