Tokyo Station and the Shin Marunouchi Building / 東京駅と新丸ビル

After our friend's wedding, Jun stayed with us for one more evening. He was catching the noon train back to Aomori. We saw Jun off at Tokyo station and decided to walk around the station, as it was too hot and humid to go on one of our regular walks. The Shin Maru Building is located close to the station so we thought we do a little window shopping and walk around there as well.

友達の結婚式が無事終わって、義理の弟も月曜の昼の電車で青森に帰って、その後、私たちは東京駅内と新丸ビルで散歩する事にしました。外が蒸し暑くって、駅とビルの中の散歩なら紫外線やら暑さは心配はいりません。

But before I share my walk with you, here is a picture of the Hayate Super Express for any of you train buffs out there and a picture of me and Mikako with Jun.

散歩の話の前に、電車オタクがいれば、下記の写真は八戸行きはやて新幹線です。あとは潤君との写真です。

Jun's train to Hachinohe and back to Aomori.

Inside Tokyo Station, my brother will be happy to know there is still an Ultraman shop. There is also shops for the popular television networks where you can buy character goods from the different shows. There is a store selling Studio Ghibli products. There is the Tomika store which specializes in mini cars. There was also an Avex label store (popular label for J-Pop artists) where they had outfits of the different artists on display (but taking pictures of the outfits wasn't allowed.)

僕の兄貴が喜ぶ事に東京駅の中にウルトラマンの専門店がある。キャラクタ・ストリートにテレビ局の店もありまして：NHK, TBS, 日テレ、テレ朝、テレビ局の番組のグッズをいっぱい販売してます。他にトミカの店もあったし、Avexレーベルの店もありました。Avexの店に所属されてるアーティストの衣装が展示されてました、Boa, Hitomi, 浜崎あゆみ、等。でも衣装の写真撮影はNGでした。

I had to take pictures of Ultra Seven and Ultraman:

Ultra Seven

Ultraman

Tokyo Station

The Shin Maru Building / 新丸ビル

Inside the Shin Marunouchi Building are shops, shops, and more shops, from the basement to the 6th floor. The floors above that are office space. The dessert shops looked pretty enticing as well as the bread buffet shop. Floors 6 and 7 are full of restaurants. The picture of the spareribs on a menu for a restaurant called "So Tired" looked so appetizing we decided to give it a taste. Unfortunately, the restaurant was only serving items off of their lunch menu and the spare ribs weren't on it. So instead, we split a pepper steak and some shouronpou (Chinese dumpling-like dish).

新丸ビルの中は店がいっぱいです。地下１階から６階まで。その上はオフィスになります。近１階から４階はショッピングゾーン。５階と６階はレストランゾーン。「So Tired」とゆう店のメニューのスペアリブが美味しそうに見えたので、その店に入りました。でもランチメニューのみでスペアリブは載ってませんでした。とりあず美香子と二人でペッパステーキ一つと小籠包を食べました。

After eating, we walked outside and headed towards the Wadakura Fountain Park and the Imperial Palace but I'll save that for another time.

食べた後に皇居と和田蔵噴水公園に行きました、でもそれはまた別の日に紹介します。