Earth Day/Arse Day
Well what a day! Earth Day (Japanese site here) 2005 at Yoyogikoen in Shibuya, Tokyo was the main event on the calendar. A beautiful day in Tokyo, with barely a cloud in the sky, perfect t-shirt weather. A good couple of thousand people turned out for the event with wide variety of stalls, from second hand clothing, books, ethnic gear and food adding to the spice.
Sadly though, as we arrived a couple of our friends were dashing off in their car to a local vets - one of their dogs had attacked another of our friends dogs, and, as we found out later, had killed it. Poor little pup. Our thoughts go out to Shacho.
Afterwards we thought we would go and get some pasta. There is a chain of Italian restaurants in Japan called Capricciosa (Japanese only) who have great inexpensive Italian food, and a fair amount of choice for vegetarians. Their original restaurant is in Shibuya, and as we have been to quite a few throughout Japan we thought we would check it out. Another mishap there, as they were closed - but it turned out ok as we found an even better place on the way.
Shibuya Underpass Society also turned out to be a chain store, but don’t let that put you off. If you can make it within the next week that is, as they are closing on the 30th of April. The local Tokyu Railway
line is heading underground so the space which the cafe has occupied for the last 3 and a half years will disappear. The company which operates the Shibuya Underpass Society also has a number of other restaurants which we will do our best to check out in our remaining few months in Tokyo. They had good healthy food, with things like falafel and quesadillas and a nice selection of beer (no Macs though:( ).
Another weekend over, another week about to begin. Only a four day week though, what with Golden Week coming up.
And thats why we called it Arse Day…