Nicolas G Hayek centre in Ginza

Had a chance to go up to 14th floor of Swatch group building, "Nicolas G Hayek centre."





























What a view! And can you believe the economy is bad? So many people are shopping in Ginza!!!

beaujolais nouveau party

We invited an artist to decorate our store with his pictures and objets and held a casual beaujolais nouveau party on the 18th.

One of the staffs bought cheese and decorated with sticks with one of his pictures. He must love cats, cats are everywhere in the store.

Taipei trip

Finally back to internet life at home as today, optical fibre service is connected.

Then I realise, it's been already about a month since I visited Taipei.


The 1st night at a night market...





Hotel PC keyboard are written both in alphabets and Chinese characters.















Invited by my friend's Japanese friend who works there to a very chic restaurant in the middle of mountain. Beautiful place!















And of course, bought expensive and good tea from Taiwan.








I am coming back there in 2 weeks and am really excited to discover more for the 3rd time!!!

Fujiyama Cider

It was the 1st time I saw this cider at a restaurant. Do you not love this classic design? The waiter explained to us that it has a long history. It looks like it is from Yamaguchi pref., which is in the south of Japan.

New book to read...

I am always impressed by the quickness and well-organised pages of amazon.co.jp.
I already received a book I ordered a day before. I always wanted to read this book!

Cats' lovers

My ex-colleague who has a cat and I often talk about cats when we meet over dinner. Then she always gives me all small souvenirs she found when she travels all over Japan for work. These are also one of the cutest!!!

Heavily used this summer

I had heard that recent sunscreen is not as uncomfortable to put on as how it used to be but didn't believe it was this good. It feels like a skin cream and a little bit like whipped cream (airy) but it works properly.

My favorite sunscreen of the summer. (will no more use Anessa, I had thought that was "the" sunscreen...)