Tokyo Art and other things ....

This morning I treated myself to a coffee in a little coffee shop Cafe Miyama, which was such fun and the coffee was great. I like green tea but there is nothing like a coffee.

After this I walked up to a fairly classy end of Shinjuku district where the Tokyo Metropolitan Offices are - everything is very manicured and neat with beautiful gardens and sakura trees (cherry blossom trees) which are green now. I went to the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, 42nd Floor, and this is what I saw from the window.

Instead of Japanese art as I expected there was a lovely exhibition of Trees in French Landscape Paintings, 1850 to 1920－From Corot to Monet, Pissarro and Matisse.

This an area in the vestibule/lobby of the Gallery in Shinjuku where umbrellas are left and locked, so they stay there and people don't steal them I guess.

While walking away from this tall building, this metal circular item above was on the footpath replicated every now and again. It must have some Public Works significance as I have noticed very decorative ones all over the place - Fujino, Kyoto, Nagoya and this one below was in Kita Village north of Kyoto.

After this, I braved the subway again to go a few stations out to have lunch with a friend of my sister. I enjoyed meeting him and afterwards I visited a Japanese folk art/craft shop and a Japanese Craft Museum next door to the Canadian Embassy.