So we missed the cherry blossom... we do every year... oh well. But the weather was absolutely wonderful walking weather! Not that that didn't make my non-arched feet cry day after day walking around shinjuku/roppongi/azabu juban area (no shibuya for a change lol) in my sneakers but they cry all the time so that's besides the point. I really like the Park Hotel a lot. So it's no Grand Hyatt or Park Hyatt but it's modern, clean, cosy and even with the small rooms, Bruce and I were very comfortable. With it being so new still, the smoking rooms didn't even smell of smoke unlike the non-smoking rooms in past hotels we have been in smell like a used ashtray ARRGH!
We had a very nice time as usual with the Kohno's. We missed Mao-chan this time since it was a weekday evening that we met but both of us couples had a ton of fun at this new izakaya place at Caretta on the 45th floor
. Never mind the view... the sake, the shochus, the wine and even the food was very good. Not that expensive either for a fancy izakaya. Ok, I can't remember what it's called. Got the card here somewhere.
Jun-san of the Rainbowl Roll is getting married... so he's moving to Nagoya where his girlfriend's family run a few different restaurants. Looks like we have go to Nagoya some time. Sushi Cho was more fun then usual despite the absense of sake lol. Fukushima-san (ok I can't say this guy's name) was extra talkative and curious and like many times with the Kohno's, there were more than a few times where we had our own lost-in-translation-moments.
Can't wait till June for our next trip there... minus the heat of course.
