2022.5.27

It was rainy in the morning, rained heavily in the afternoon, but became fine in the evening.

I happened to find Karasumori jinja shrine which I have been interested in on my way to the restaurant in Shimbashi.

I had dinner with friends whose name is the same in the kanji characters but read differently. My name is Kimiko, and others are Masako and Tomoko. We are different in the ages, but love to eat crabs. So we ate crabs at Shimbashi.

I have known Masako for about 9 years, but Masako for a few weeks. 

So we met Tomoko for the first time tonight.

But we enjoyed having dinner and talking.

It was a nice gathering.

2022.4.28

It was cloudy and cool.

The Golden Week starts tomorrow.

What are your plans?

I went to Shimbashi to have crab dinner with classmates who studied international business management together about 9 years ago in Yokohama. We enjoyed delicious meals and talking about past, present and future. It was very interesting, and we promised to get together regularly with mutual classmates.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

2017.5.15

It was cloudy.

I went to nearby shrine before getting on the train and another near the office before going to the office.

After work I visited the Fuji Film square after a while. There was my favorite type of exhibition related water. They were beautiful. I like pictures of natural beauty.

Then I went to Shinjuku to have dinner with my American host father who has come to Japan on a business trip for two weeks or so. I got the wrong exit at the Shinjuku station, and had to walk longer than expected.
We knew we would get together sometime this week but have not decided yet until this morning. So I did not have enough time to choose the proper restsurant beforehand and I asked the hotel  concierge to recommend us some sushi restaurants. She selected four of them and we visited two of them.
There was a waiting line for the first one. The other was very fancy and very expensive. So we decided to go to my favorite one after all. It was a crab restaurant. Usually on Fridays without booking it is very hard to enter. Fortunately today is Monday and we can enter without waiting.
There was a live koto (琴) music on the stage.
We shared the course dinner and added one more special offered dish and drinks.  They included boild three types of crabs, raw crab, hotpot, gratin, sushi, clear soup, and dessert. All were good.
I was going to treat him but he treated me.

He liked the special goods to take out the crab meat, and bought them for souvenir.
He noticed the difference of costumes of waitresses. So I asked the diiference. They said on the job training waitresses wear two-part kimono, and qualified waitresses wear the regular one.
He said the way of Japanese payment without tips was better.

We had a good time.