This morning I got an email and an automatic phone call from the Swedish Foreign Ministry telling me that the Swedish Radiation Safety Agency recommended all Swedes within a radius of 250 km from Fukushima #1 to take iodine pills. And if you could not get hold of it they were provided by the embassy.

So better safe than sorry, I got on my bike to Meguro station from where I took the Namboku line to Roppongi-Ichome. While I was riding the subway cell-phones suddenly started to beep in the cart. And the train stopped with the driver explaining that we stopped because of an earthquake. My first while in the subway, though I could feel nothing.

Arriving at Roppongi-Ichome I have to pass through a garden terrace before I could get to the embassy. A plum tree was in full bloom looking like a pink lollipop 🙂

In difference to the US Embassy almost next doors the Swedish Embassy has no guards and is always open. The only person there was a single guy sitting behind glass in the reception. I showed him my passport and I got 10 iodine pills.

Then I went home. Stopping only at Tokyu Store to buy water and strawberries, and then a final stop to get a haircut.