This is the view of the Shibuya metro station as you go down the escalators from the Hikarie (ヒカリエ) building. I took it on my way home. Today was a typical day of work, just like every other week day. I’ve been listening to the Nice to Meet You podcast by Tobias van Schneider, a well-known independent digital product designer in the industry.
This is Sangenjaya again in the sun. I've been away from home two nights in a row. We said goodbye at the station in Tamachi. It was a happy goodbye. I believe we will see each other again.
Antônio Carlos Jobim is playing Águas de Março again.
How nice must it be to just share that warmth. No attachments. No consequences. No break-ups. No words. A relationship that starts with dinner Friday evening and ends with breakfast Monday morning. A simple hold of the hand of a stranger who is now anything but one.
In the afternoon we went to have coffee at the Monocle Café in Yurakucho.
I went to Maisen Tonkatsu (舞泉), the best tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo, and ordered sushi. I wasn't ready to taste amazing tonkatsu today, maybe I'll come here again another time with someone else.
I took this beautiful photo inside the Omotesandō Koffee, a beautiful tiny shop serving delicious coffee.
These must be the best times of our lives. Making last minute plans, hopping from bar to bar, eating Italian food for hours and walking to the hotel together.
She is heartbreakingly simple. We walked to Hachikō. We've said goodbye and I wonder what her name is.
The photo above was taken sneakily inside inside the waiter’s corridor at the Ichiran Ramen bar in Shibuya. Ichiran is famous for the unique personalised ramen taste and also for the independent library-like cubicles where you eat it. One must taste one’s ramen without distractions.
I received a notification from LINE: “Samson Antwi: Yes, you can have Takadanobaba. Good news for you!” Thank you Samson. I am buying you a gigantic bottle of sake for Christmas.
22:00I'm getting a good hang of this silhouette style with instant film. This is a photo was taken just outside the Shibuya Hikarie (ヒカリエ) during my lunch break.
Next month I have Japanese language classes at the ISI Language School in Takadanobaba, so I am looking for apartments nearby. I found a perfect one just a 7 minute walk away but it was reserved hours before I asked to reserve it. So I settled for a cheaper option near Nakano which is about a 40 minute walk away.
The photo above is the view from my office, again. I don’t want to forget this view. You can tell the film hasn’t finished developing when I scanned so the image looks very pale.