Travel Report…. heads up in Tokyo!

Yesterday evening we enjoyed a cool night in Tokyo, good restaurants and cozy bars seems to be part of the Japanese life and culture… did we mind??? not really although Jet lag was triyng to kill us real hard!

Try this restaurant, next time around, a real extreme Japanese experiment… the food was so good, I simply forgot to take pictures…:(

DSC07259Leaving the restaurant, we dived into Tokyo night life, the city is so cozy!

DSC07263Transport is no problem, cabs are EVERYWHERE….

 

 

 

DSC07265 I mean EVERYWHERE….:)

DSC07268 Streets are more like manicured, Tokyo leaves a very very clean impression to us, @ every visit…

DSC07269 We ended up in a cozy bar from a VW friend… Mr Hide Wakabayashi in his “Cafe Streamline”… interior is all made by himself…. and on special request he play You a couple of real cool tunes on his “Gipsy” guitar…

DSC07277 Everything You need fir us, thirsty people, and small food too!

You can find Cafe Streamline on Instagram…

DSC07283Or here is the full business card… show to any cab driver and You’ll be there!

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After the night came the morning, a cool day with lots to do… some local VW friends decided to give us some side viewing today … yammie..

 

DSC07284Weather conditions let us  end up in a real fancy shopping mall, this beetle was in hat store… thanks God we don’t understand Japanese so couldn’t translate… “Plse no Pictures”….:)

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Local Candy store making artisanal sweets…. cool to see and taste… 

DSC07298 Time for lunch… I choose this!

DSC07302Happy meal from yours truly!

DSC07312 The other side of the shopping mall was a museum, all free! wowh! All set up by Toyota! Thank You a lot Mr Toyota, you’re a nice guy… Domo Arrigatou…

DSC07314The setting of the museum was unbelievable nice! No big by any means, but just nice, with a LOT of detail…

DSC07320 DSC07325 DSC07331 DSC07336 DSC07337 Toyota 2000Gt, the only Japanese production model that I know of the Million dollar value club… the real Japanese  super car from the seventies…

DSC07341Outside fountain with more classic cars, as said set up was real nice…

DSC07346Some buildings in Tokyo are really mind-blowing, a pleasure for the eye!

DSC07353By the time we came back to hotel night started… let’s find that next good restaurant….

DSC07379Oh, You need some publicity for Belgian chocolate in Tokyo? Here it is! believe me or not, this is Japanese for Belgium chocolate…:)

DSC07382Another night in Tokyo is awaiting us, we’re 9 hours ahead of home, so while You work through the afternoon, we’re at dinner already…:)

DSC07386stay tuned for the next update tomorrow… I hope…

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  1. Hello Bob- san .
    Thank you very much for coming to my Cafe Streamline!!
    I hope we will talk about vintage VW next year…
    And also I will be happy to talk about VW with everybody who will come from foreign country!!
    Thank you very much for your issue about Cafe Streamline!!
    Have a good flight!!

    Hide Wakabayashi
    Owner of 1957VW Type-1 and Cafe Streamline

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