2026.3.8

It was fine but cold.

I got up early and wore kimono. I left home around 11AM and headed for Okachimachi and walked to my favorite Japanese tea house to have Afternoon Tea with friends who like Kimono at 1:30PM. Since I published the 200th e−book recently they celebrated with me.

After that we went to Yushima Tenjin shrine to see the 69th Plum Festival. Unfortunately, there were few plums left.

After that two of us went to Shinagawa to see someone.

At night there was a webinar.

It was a nice day.

2020.4.19

It was fine today after a heavy rain yesterday. Mt. Fuji looked so beautiful covered with snow.

Today is kokuu (穀雨), one of nijushisekki(二十四節気), the 24 soler terms. The last one was seimei (清明) on April 4, and the next one is rikka (立夏) on May 5.

穀雨(kokuu) literally means cereales rain. It is rain to help grains to grow.

Today I had a chance to enjoy Afternoon Tea at the 26th floor of the hotel in Shinagawa. Usually there are three restaurants but because of the Coronavirus, only one of them was open. It was a spacy place with about 27.5 meters high ceiling. There were 10 small sweets and dishes. I could taste six different tea. Sweets were either strawberry or cherry related taste. I really like Afternoon Tea.

2018.8.22

It was cloudy in the morning and rained heavily again in the afternoon.

In the morning there was a lecture by CEO. I was so surprised to hear his vision.

In the afternoon seven of us went to the Peninsula Hotel to enjoy the Afternoon tea. There was a long line. One person is  HK$388, and two persons are HK$688 with 10% service charge. There are two scorns, sandwiches and sweets. We ordered 7 different tea to share. Before checking chocolate was served. Furthrrmore they gave us BVLGARI chocolate for souvenir.
What a nice service!

After that we went to the Lady's market by taxi and enjoyed shopping.

We enjoyed dinner at a local restaurant.