After arrival to HND yesterday I quickly hopped on a train to the hotel. I chose one in Kamata this time due to the proximity to the airport.
For dinner, I went to an Izakaya restaurant and quickly learned the limits of Google Translate, or my abilities to use it. Apparently, while cross referencing the translation and the menu I mixed up the lines and got some chicken intestines... The adventures of traveling without knowing more than two words or even the letters. The onions and potato salad was also not what I've ordered but tasted quite good.

At least the meat skewers where what I wanted...

Kamata as a neighborhood is something new in Tokyo for me. Accidentally, I got in a street where the women are quite pushy even after telling "No" when they "offer their services". A first for me in Japan, but around the corner it was all back to normal. Surely not a good base for exploring the sights of Tokyo, however, I was in Tokyo twice in the last years so that was not really my goal. Therefore, another long walk: From the hotel in Kamata I started walking loosely aiming for Shibuya.
It is a beautiful day and Mt. Fuji was in clear view. This is from the Honmonji temple area.

A small plum garden with this nice tea house.

A last bowl of my favorite Japanese dish: Ramen (here Tan Tan).

A random street. I mostly walked by narrow houses, some single units and some multiple units.


Towards Meguro the houses become much nicer and it seems like a pretty affluent district.


And while the first part of the walk was mostly dense, but small houses, in Meguro it started to get bigger. In a couple of weeks this promenade will be full of people watching the Sakura blossom.

And finally after around 15 km I arrived at Shibuya crossing. Very busy even on a Sunday, full of tourists, demonstrators and (self-)promoters. Not very enjoyable to be honest, especially in contrast to the quiet and relaxing walk until here.




After some shopping, one last meal: Tonkatsu, again, very tasty.