Shannon Sensei: Shinjuku

On Sunday, Marie and I went to Shinjuku. She wanted to go to the bookstore I went to on my last trip, Kinokuniya, to see if what books they had there in French. After we got to Shinjuku, it was up to me to find the bookstore.
Understand that Shinjuku station is so large and major a station there are 6 exits, and I didn't even know by name whic exit we should take. But, by intuition and sight memory, we walked directly to the bookstore. Lucky me! Marie was disappointed by their French book selection, but I was once again, and as usual, enthralled by the choices I had in the English book section. After picking out three books, I was unsucessfully searching for another, when I decided I needed to curtail the enthusiasm a bit and go for the essentials only. So I bought a couple postcards and a Tokyo subway guide.

We left the book store and headed to the Tokyo metropolitan city office building (or something along those lines) because they have an observation deck in the top of one of the towers where you can see all of Tokyo and Mt. Fuji. I did get my first glimpse of the famous mountain (and the rest of the mountain range southwest of the city) but it was through only one squinting eye and my hand shading my face. Because it was so close to sunset (and it seems that the sun sets almost right behind Mt. Fuji), we were unable to get any good pictures. But we've decided to go back some morning when the light will be right. On the observation deck were a couple shops, mostly with toys, including godzilla, a rock-em sock-em robot-type game, power rangers, and hello kitty.

The picture to the right is a sign which tells what businesses are in the building next to the city building. One of them is a well-known American restuarant. I now know where a Sizzler in Tokyo is, in case that information ever becomes useful.