Day 8 Sunday, our second day off and our only chance to go shopping, the group meets at noon in the lobby of the hotel. all but J dog, Hugh and I go shopping. We head off to buy sake, first at a department store which turns out to have a large selection of sake. We figure out what to buy after a long time of discussion and questions to other folks in the aisles. The next stop is to get J dog a Tokyo Giants baseball hats, the only place is at the Tokyo dome for every sports store in Tokyo carries American major league team hats only. The heat is down right brutal I could be in an African jungle. The Tokyo dome is packed with people waiting for the game of the day to start j dog finds his hat and we head to purchase sake glasses. J dog and I depart from Hugh who is hooking up with friends for a night of drinking. J dog and I head to a high end neighborhood the SOHO of Tokyo that we had visited the night of Italian food at Africa. We stop at a French cafe for refreshments and escape from the heat, I try a new beer from Tahiti . After an hour of cool relaxation we head back into the heat and discover that the shopping in the hood is all westernized stuff nothing tradition Japanese which to this point I realize globalization has taken hold. After walking for a couple of hours we find nothing to buy, but enjoyed the amazing hood for all its richness and that can buy. We navigate the trains system the first time without a guide back to the hotel. I shower up and head to eat ssushi, I bump into mike at the sushi bar and chow down on Torro only 4 bucks here.

Mike and I head over to an office complex behind the train station that he explored the night before. The architecture of the complex is amazing five or six sky scrapers clustered around a park with covered walkways. The only way to describe it is to make reference to Akria and Ghost in the Shell movies, just huge buildings with strong lines and perfect complementary lighting. This society is amazing all this metal tile and glass put together to create a minimalist's complex that must have cost a fortune, it is the most amazing balance of architecture. Mike and I head back to the hotel were the bed just came at me .