A QUIET DAY IN TOKYO

We leave the Tokyo Westin at 6:30AM Sunday morning to catch a flight from Narita Airport to Singapore. Thus, I won't have time to post an article that day. So, I send this now, and not long after midnight Hawaii time will come a second posting to cover that absence. By the way, did I tell you that it is cold in Tokyo? 44 F.

As I indicated yesterday, I've been to Robuchon many times.

Click on this to see some of my previous visits.
Ten years ago I indicated that Joel Robuchon, a quarter century ago, was named Chef of the Century, and that he is five years younger than me.
He first retired in 1995 at the age of 50.

His cuisine is retrogressive, harking back to the earlier days of French cooking before all the micro-stuff you now see, called molecular gastronomy, created in 1988, but only began to become prominent around 2000.
He passed away five years ago at the age of 73.

It was another perfectly clear day in Tokyo today, so we had a perfect view of Mount Fuji from sunrise to sunset. Went shopping at the Uniqlo in Ginza. Actually, they have two large stores only a couple of blocks apart in this region of Tokyo.

We noticed on the other side of Robuchon at the shopping mall activity growing. There will be a Korean Festival this weekend.

Mayumi and Tadashi Matsunaga joined us at the Westin Tokyo executive club, and we ended the evening at a curry with pork ramen shop.

First time I've ever had Suntory Umami Beer.

About my pedometer. From Honolulu through the first whole day in Tokyo I walked 14,706 steps.

Then Day 2 in Tokyo was also a challenge, for I walked 11,377 steps. The muscles up and down both legs are sore from so much walking.

26,083 steps for three days is a record-breaker for me. All the more impressive because most of the first day was sitting on a plane and two taxi rides.

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