Afterwork Dinner Dates in Tokyo

Tokyo is such a wonderful city.
Even after 7pm, stores are still full of shoppers.

Of course, that's not the only thing that's great about it.

If you wanna get fresh sashimi of Hokkaido octopus,
it's readily available

YUM.

I met up with my friend from San Diego to go on dinner dates.
Seeing her in Tokyo is exciting but bizarre.
We used to drive around in a car to go eat Pho and what not,
but now it's us on the train, going to eat raw octopus instead.

How time changes.

A very satisfying meal to follow.

All these small bites of this and that is perfect for me
since I'm a greedy baby needy baby.

As if we didn't eat enough,
we went to Starbucks for after-meal drinks.
Now, this hasn't changed one bit

Another night, another place, another meal.
This time, in Ginza.

We were gonna go to a tonkatsu restaurant.
But 5000 yen for tonkatsu à la carte,
without any rice or miso soup?! (which would've been 1000 yen more)
that's just crazy.

I guess that's Ginza for you.

Instead, a much more sensible choice.

Grill beef tongue.

Oh they were so good

We can't seem to talk enough.
Ginza was shutting down already,
so we moved to Roppongi to go to Starbucks once again.


I ended up coming back to the hotel past midnight.

Sakura and Tokyo Tower.

An interesting contrast.
Yet a beautiful pairing.