24Apr 09
Roppongi, one of the high class areas of Tokyo and home of the Mori Art Museum.
The day started with quick trip to Akihabara to check out some toys followed by a great find, Tempura! We came across this chain of tempura restaurants which in our opinion, served the best tempura we have ever eaten. The squid in particular was delicious, not rubbery, just nice and chewy. Shiok!
Before Roppongi Hills, we dropped by Tokyo Tower. One of the landmarks in Tokyo. Well, it was just a tower, doesn’t even come close to places like the Eiffel Tower.
The Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills. Named after the tycoon, the building is a landmark in Roppongi and holds the Mori Art Museum on it’s 52 floor. The museum incorporates the Tokyo City View and the art museum on the 52 floor, and the Sky Deck from the top of the building.
The city view was pretty spectacular with 360 degree views of Tokyo from the gallery. You could see as far as the Odaiba and the rainbow bridge.
The view was also up close and personal as you can see from the pic above. You can go right up to the window and look down. wooooooo
Mori must also be an avid car collector. He had Ferrari’s from different ages as well as an Audi Spider on show.
One of the best views ever was from the top of Mori Tower. Behind Jas is the helipad. It reminded me of the top of Swiss hotel, and the view of Singapore from there is just as good.
The Mori Art Museum, it is known as one of the better art museums worldwide, and I was about to find out why.
The exhibits were all engaging and I had a great experience there. Pics will not be able to give you full experience of the various rooms where the artworks lay.
The above was one of my fave artworks. It had symbolism to the 9/11 attacks in New York.
The museum gave me my best experience ever in an art museum. It showed me that art could really be fun and interesting. The above visuals depict the various ads put out by the museum. Even those are works of art.
After our museum visit, we walked around roppongi. The streets weren’t as interesting as Shinjuku or Shibuya, but we did come across Hard Rock Tokyo. 
We ventured back to Shinjuku and were looking for a place for dinner. We decided to have our first and only non-Japanese meal, and what a great choice it was. We had Octopus Sashimi, and two pizzas!! I forgot to take the seafood pizza as I was too busy eating. heh,, the Japs sure know how to make pizza, I like how they always make their crusts nice and thin. Yummmm
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