The Mitsukoshi department store food court ($250 a kilo for beef slices!!!!)

Today we went to the Daiso store in Harajuku to buy origami paper for H & C's wedding, and to buy more kitchen supplies (we cook a lot of Japanese food, and the only place to get some of the kitchen tools and ingredients is in Japan - well that is our excuse anyway).

On our travels today, we found the most beautiful park tucked away between some enormous sky scrapers.

This poor guy had to scrape up all the leaves, whilst separating them from the gravel - it seemed like a never ending task.

Us enjoying Takeshita Dori in Harajuku (there are a LOT of funky people walking around in Harajuku)

On the subway we saw this advertisement (for what we couldn't work out), that had cats on it, with fur (synthetic we think, not real cat fur).

 Takeshitadori in Harajuku

We went to the Mitsukoshi department store (which is like a combination of Harrods and David Jones), and had a wander around their food department.  Everything was AMAZING.  I could have spent all day just photographing the food, but was very restrained - I may go back after the New Year to take more photos if I can.

New Year Apples, with the date and the year of the horse grown into the peel. 

Around $13 for a punnet of strawberries (each one was perfect)

 A mound of salmon roe (I soooooo wanted to buy some of this to put on my rice .... yum!!!)

Checking out the tea section of the Harrods part of Mitsukoshi department store. 

Thinly sliced beef - at $120 a kilo!!!

And then I found the $250 a kilo Beef 

 30 perfect strawberries, all in a row, for around $184.00

I've never seen ripe strawberries like this before (I assume they were ripe at that price).

 $5.25 for a single strawberry - I bet they taste delicious

 Yep, that is $420 for TWO rockmellons

 Some of this fruit (the mango & the papaya) are from Australia

Tasting Tasmanian Honey :-)

At the Fortnum & Mason tea department in the Mitsukoshi department store

We had high tea with our lovely friends E & A.  It was delicious (and we were sooo full we didn't need dinner).  It was very different to the High Tea at Adore in Gold Creek, but we LOVED it.

The Teapots come labelled so you know which tea is which - this is a very clever idea.