2 November 2023
Double curry
Ginza from Kanda to Shimbashi
After the long day of train fighting, I decided to stay fairly local this evening, and walk down Ginza and gawk at the coloured lights and fancy buildings and Russian oligarchs of which there were many. An annoying new feature of the main street through the area is all the double parked cars with their hazard lights on. This never used to be a thing. People are too lazy to walk anywhere these days. I blame the scooters that were the subject of a mini rant under the first pic of this journey 6 days ago.
Back to Ginza, and there is a lot of construction going on, including 3/4 of the main corner, I will explain that below.
For my dinner, I headed into the Takashimaya annex, a place I have always found a great meal, it is not part of the actual department store food area as such, just half a dozen semi casual places to sit and have a meal. On previous trips I have had the deli salad selection food box thing, but this time, double curry.
It is traditional when the head Samurai of a family dies, that he be scalped, and his scalp is transplanted onto the head of the next born male heir. Here are a few fresh scalps.
Moss ball plant. I purchased 3 to bring back to Australia and not declare to BORDER FORCE.
Here is Takashimaya. Actually it is 3 buildings on this side of the road and one on the other side, linked by a tunnel.
And... double curry. It appeared to be made by a subcontinental gentleman. You could choose from a few, I got spicy beef on the right and aged butter tomato on the left, whatever that is. It was delicious. Nearly as good as Go go.
Under the bridge where it kinks around the corner, at full zoom. I have taken a shot from here on many a previous trip.
Snowman shop. I really do not know what they were selling.
Here is the main corner, with the fancy Nissan shop. The 2 corners behind me are full construction zones currently.
After getting to the end of the flash part of Ginza I turned right and ended up at the very busy Shimbashi.
Lots of good eating spots along here, but none of them had double curry on offer.
However there was another chance for a beneath the tracks photo, so here it is.
Tomorrow, I take the Shinkansen to Hiroshima. 3.5 hours or thereabouts.