Remember the giant turtle ? Remember the rabbit following his master on the street like a dog ? I was wondering what kind of strange pet I will randomly meet next in this crazy Tokyo. Wel, this morning, I got the answer.

A pig. Adult one. Yes. (Remind me something)

Don't ask me why.

It was Sunday morning at Rinshi-no-Mori Park close to Musashi-Koyama station. The master was, like usual, a sweet Japanese grandfather. The "pet" was, as usual, amazingly clean and quiet.

I still can't believe it, can you ?...

So, let's bet about the next strange pet : I hesitate between a zebra and a baby giraffe.

What do you say ?

Last year, the Most Original Pet Award has been given to the giant turtle that a Japanese old man was showing around along the Kanda riverside (Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku).
This year, at Musashi-Koyama (Shinagawa-ku), it has been difficult to find better but finally, I found out that having a walk with a rabbit on the street was more difficult than with a turtle. I give you the star of the neighborhood : Mei-chan the rabbit.

Roppongi Midtown : we will make you love winter season.

Tokyo is the brightest place in the night worldmap. No surprise. Living in Japan allows you to have a daily shot of light. Just look at the dose of brightness you can get here in 24 hours of time.

BY NIGHT
In Shinjuku South, you should get lost in the restaurant floor of Takashimaya's block
and find this garden of lucky star in the airs.









BY DAY
Pieces of sky on the way to work, every morning or almost,
under the sunshine that have never deserted Tokyo since November

Most of the graveyards in Japan have no walls, no fences, no gates; and it made me realize that our graveyards really look like prisons. It's not surprising that the Western zombies just want to escape and walk freely in town like anyone else.
So there is no gates, no guardians, and you can come anytime - by night, too. It's a place like another. So it's really not frightening. Even ghost stories are used to take place in summer in the Japanese tales, when it's super-warm - while we can not imaging a dead spirit without thinking of cold, freezing wind... as a result, in this sunny December, no way you feel ill at ease in a Japanese cemetery !

Aoyama yard, Tokyo

Christmas as it is used to be in Tokyo : totally non-Christian (Jeezus who ?...), colorful, shiny, German-spirited (did you know the Christmas sausage ? Me neither) and... romantic. This is the time for couple to go to Disneyland and joyfully mix the Christmas symbols with a kind of American-style naive romance. Look at this atmosphere at Roppongi Hills.

No Christmas without a tree...

... or two...


... or three.


Here it is : Drosselmeier's magic castle !


And... the Nutcracker ! Yesss !
(but ahem... could you please become Hans quickly ? thanx)


I shrinked for real... I could enter a snowball.


Oh ! A giant Barley Sugar over there !


"la neige ressemble à du glaçage à la vanille"


The Snow-man took the keys and stole the house. Damned.


Lights... lights... lights.

The Reds and the Yellows are fighting at Koyama, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.
Who wins ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

I just can't choose, make your choice.

The countdown to Christmas is launched already

-Shinjuku -

The little Parisienne that I am will never be fed up with the Japanese month of November. Sweet, sunny and colorful November... This is the best season ever to have a walk in Tokyo parks. Ten minutes by foot from my place, there is a park I visited this week-end for the first time : Rinshi no Mori (Meguro-ku). Until 1978, the place has been used as a forestry research center. It's full of giant trees - more than 100 meters high - including... French species.

Here is an article from the Japan Times about this beautiful and peaceful park. My new Sunday oxygen destination...

パリ人として、東京の明るい十一月が大好きです。パリと比べていい天気で紅葉がすばらしいです。本当に散歩しやすい季節です。
家から歩いて十分で、都立林試の公園という公園があります。とても高い木が見られます。ステキな公園です。

Godzilla attack


Yurakucho station, Tokyo