Saturday morning and we wake up quite early. We are going to Yoyogi park not far from the Harajuku station. So after leaving some shirts at the dry cleaning shop Chie and I walk to Ebisu station to get on the JR Yamanote-sen to Harajuku station. From there it was a few minutes walk to the Hokkaido festival.

Already at 10:45 am it was a lot of people there. Eating. Drinking. And enjoying the good weather (27 degrees celcius). The festival was a kind of PR for the Hokkaido island. so mainly the food was typical Hokkaido food.

Our first stop was at the Kani (crab) food stand. We had yaki-gani (grilled crab) and miso-kani (miso soup with crab). And sat down in the sun. Enjoying good food, nice weather and great company.

   

When we finished our crab meal we continued to have a miso-ramen (noodles in spicy miso soup). We found a place that was a little bit more in shadow and I sat down while Chie bought the ramen. It was tasty as was the crab.

   

When we had finished the miso-ramen we were totally full. The only thing that we could eat was a vanilla ice cream for dessert. And we decided to walk to Shibuya. On our way to Shibuya we took a small detour outside the Yoyogi park. There were a lot of people setting up flee market stands and many were rigging their music equipment. There were at least 4 different groups with a 20 meters gap rigging their equipment. And 1 girl with a guitar already singing. I can just imagine the noise as the different groups try to be louder than each other to be heard.

In Shibuya we stopped at the Tokyu Hands store to buy some paint. I am painting a wall in the kitchen blue. A very small enhancement that may be the first of many that we have discussed.