Breakfast at the train station near the hotel was a cup of American coffee and a cream filled sweet donut thing…yum.

Lunch at a thai place near the office FILLED with chatchkes…I was too in shock to take a picture. A 1000 yen bowl of yummy noodle soup that was so hot my lips were still on fire 45 minutes later. And dinner at a chain – Sushizanmai — which was so good. One of my hosts kept ordering food and beer and the meal cost 6000 yen ($76.) One item – i think it was quail eggs pressed together – resulted in a solid/crunchy type of sushi that I didn’t enjoy eating. I was OK with the baby shrimp that tasted like popcorn, the lightly battered tempura and the rest of the meal.

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I’m told that the office has 10K people working in it….20+ floors and its eerily quiet. The vending machine offers free hot and cold green tea, and there is an American coffee shop on the lobby level of the building. The women’s bathroom on our floor has clear drawers that are labeled with names of the employees in that wing so they can store toiletries in the office versus carrying a purse of make-up and other items to and from the office on the subway each day. The toilet also makes flushing sounds while you are in the stall so you have as much privacy as possible to conduct your business.

In Tokyo, they’ve thought of everything. It’s so clean. There is no trash on the ground, but no trash barrels either. In the restaurant, there are wire baskets under our chairs to place a purse or laptop bag so it doesn’t touch the floor. Outside the restaurant, there is an umbrella bag dispenser so you can put your umbrella in and when you remove it it has a plastic wrapping around it so the wet umbrella doesnt drip in the restaurant. I noticed umbrella racks — 50+ upright cubbies — in the lobby as well for umbrellas. No one would dream of stealing someone else’s umbrella so it’s fine to leave it there until you need it again.