Tokyo - Day 7 (Tennoji Temple - Yoyogi Park - Takeshita Street - Meiji Shrine - Roppongi Hill)

Tennoji Temple is just 4 minutes walking distance (290m) from APA Hotel TKP Nippori-ekimae - Tokyo. We checked out from our hotel at 10.45am and left our luggage at the reception area before we walked over to Tennoji Temple. The temple is located next to the Yanaka Cemetery Park, overlooking Nippori Station.

Tennoji Temple

Tennoji Temple

Chozuya

Tennoji Temple

Address:
Tennoji Temple
7-14-8 Yanaka,
Taito City,
Tokyo 110-0001,
Japan

Yanaka Cemetery Park

We took a train from Nippori Station to Harajuku Station (¥200 per person) and from there we walked to Yoyogi Park. The park is just 5 minutes walking distance (350m) from Harajuku Station. Yoyogi National Stadium is just across Yoyogi Park. It's a beautiful and quiet park. We saw a kebab food truck in front of the park entrance and decided to grab one. It's a unique combination of fries, cabbage and kebab meat stuffed in a pita bread. The taste was okay and that will keep us going for another hour. There's a dog park in Yoyogi Park. If you like dogs you can visit the park but you are not allowed to enter the park without your membership card or unregistered dog.

Yoyogi National Stadium

Parks Kitchen Car

Kebab - ¥500

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi Dog Park

Yoyogi Dog Park

Yoyogi Park

Pine Tree of Imperial Troop Review

Address:

Yoyogi Park

2-1 Yoyogikamizonocho,

Shibuya City,

Tokyo 151-0052,

Japan

We walked to Takeshita Street just 5 minutes walking distance (350m) from Yoyogi Park. Takeshita Street is a pedestrian shopping street, one of the busiest shopping street in Tokyo. There's fashion boutique, cafes and restaurants. My partner's uncle recommended us to try a ramen shop not far away from Harajuku Station. It's a small ramen shop which can only accommodate 20 people. As usual we have to stand and queue for our table. I ordered Miso ramen with egg while my partner ordered  their signature Tonkotsu soup - Kyushu Jangara with chunks of marinated pork. Ramen is nice and soft but I felt very thirsty after eating. I preferred my Miso ramen because it's more flavourful compared to Kyushu Jangara ramen.

Mobile billboard truck

Kyushu Jangara Ramen

Restaurant ambience

Ice water and sea weed - ¥100

Kyushu Jangara with chunks of marinated pork - ¥990

Miso ramen with egg - ¥860

Address:

Kyushu Jangara Ramen

1-13-21, 2nd Floor,

Shibuya City,

Jingumae,

Tokyo 150-0001

Japan

We walked to Meiji Jingu after our late lunch hoping to see a Japanese wedding but to no avail. We then took a train from Meiji Jingumae Station to Nogizaka Station (¥170 per person).

Meiji Shrine

Meiji Shrine

Meiji Shrine

Kawaii desu ne

Street performance in front of Meiji Shrine

Address:

Meiji Shrine

1-1 Yoyogikamizono-cho,

Shibuya City,

Tokyo 151-8557,

Japan


We walked past The National Art Center Tokyo and took a peek at one of the art exhibition. Entrance is free of charge but there's no crowd. 

Sesshu International Art Society Exhibition

Sesshu International Art Society Exhibition

Address:

The National Art Center

7-22-2 Roppongi,

Minato City,

Tokyo 106-8858,

Japan

We walked to Roppongi Hill and had our tea break at McDonald. I ordered chocolate & almonds waffle cone and strawberry McShake. Both were equally as good. We hang around Roppongi Hill and from there you can see Tokyo Tower. We walked to Hard Rock Roppongi which is just 6 minutes walking distance (500m) from Roppongi Hill. This time we didn't get anything form the Hard Rock shop.

The giant spider of Roppongi Hill

Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Tower (night view)

Mori Art Museum Tokyo City View

Roppongi Hills Christmas Market 2019

Chocolate & Almonds waffle cone - ¥200 and Strawberry McShake (medium) - ¥200

Address:

Roppongi Hill

6-10-1 Roppongi,

Minato City,

Tokyo 106-6108,

Japan

We had our dinner at Seryna, just 3 minutes walking distance (200m) from Hard Rock Roppongi. A very cosy restaurant with a nice ambience. Staff were very attentive, polite and friendly. We ordered shabu-shabu for one person. There's 3 types of course menu for you to choose from and we went for Seryna. Our course menu comes with an appetizer, seasonal Japanese dish, horsehair crab (half), fried stuffed crab, shabu-shabu and dessert. We get to choose either prime beef shabu-shabu, crab shabu-shabu, Kobe beef shabu-shabu or Kobe beef char-broiled steak. We decided to go for prime beef  (grade A5) shabu-shabu - ¥15,000.

We loved their fried stuff crab and beef. The beef is so tender and soft. Perfect combination with the spicy dipping sauce. Crabmeat salad was good too but portion size was a bit small. I don't really enjoyed their almond pudding dessert because it has an intense almond flavour. I love roasted almonds but definitely not almond pudding. We were so full that we have to cancel our garlic rice that we ordered earlier.

(Total bill - ¥19,844 including tax)

Seryna

Restaurant ambience

Appetizer

Seasonal Japanese Dish - tofu

Crabmeat salad - ¥1,400

Horsehair crab (half)

Fried stuffed crab

Spicy dipping sauce

Sauce

Prime beef shabu-shabu

Vegetables

Shabu-shabu

Noodles

Dessert - almond pudding

Drinking water and green tea

Address:
Seryna
3-12-2 Roppongi,
Minato City,
Tokyo 106-0032,
Japan


After dinner we took a train from Roppongi Station to Nishi-nippori Station via Kasumigaseki Station. We took our luggage from the hotel and walked to Nippori Station and from there we took a train to Narita Airport Terminal 2 (¥1,050 per person). Our train depart at 9.15pm and by the time we reached Narita Airport Terminal 2 it's already 10.45pm. The train journey took approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. We decided to stay at Hotel Nikko Narita for one night since we will be flying back to Kota Kinabalu early morning. It's very convenient to stay in this hotel because there's free shuttle bus service to and fro from the hotel to the airport. The free shuttle bus schedule is displayed at bus stop no. 33. Our bus came at 11.15pm and 15 minutes later we have reached our hotel.

Note: ¥1 = RM 0.039

Street Go-Karting

Nippori Station