The first Toranomon Hills (Tower) was opened on 11 June 2014.
This is my first visit to Toranomon Hills.
Therefore, this is my first to meet Toranomon.
The second tower, Toranomon Hills Business Tower, was recently opened on 11 June 2020 and there would be additional two Toranomon Hills tower for residential and station by 2022.
I went to Toranomon Yokocho where 26 restaurants are located in a block or one floor.
We hopped restraints to enjoy few dishes.
We had pork skewers at Torishige.
Torishige
There is a distiller for gin: Sake Shokudo Toranomon Joryusho (Liquor Restaurant Toranomon Distiller.
I had Mojito, and
Gifu Lavender Gin
If you want to have varieties of bites; this would be a place.
She is a great guide!
She also took me to one of iconic public arts: 10 m high sculpture “Roots” by Jaume Plensa.
My friend gave me two (2) movie vouchers valid only at the movie theatre near my place – Toho Cinemas Roppongi.
The original validation date was 31 May 2020; however, the movie theatre was closed during the State of Emergency (8 April to 25 May 2020) therefore the validation date automatically extended to 31 July 2020.
Unfortunately, major movies postponed the showing date in later year such as 007 in November; therefore, I had to select a move from available movies.
I like an action movie so I decided to watch “Rambo – Last Blood” on 30 July 2020.
It was the last day of showing; therefore, it was showing only at the last show time of the day (9:30 pm – 11:25 pm).
I regretted to go alone to watch this movie at late night at isolated cinema – there were only seven (7) of us occupying a cinema.
I should have gone with a buddy because I needed somebody to calm me down after watching this movie – too much sorrow and pain.
I also reserved to watch Nausica – Princess of the Wind Valley (official English Title is “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind”) on the following date on 31 July 2020.
The Toho Cinema was showing four Ghibli Movies – Nausica, Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no Kami Kakushi (Spirited Away) and Gedo Senki (Tales from Earthsea) – for providing opportunities to watch these masterpieces once again at the movie theatre.
I wanted my space when I watch this movie (again, there were seven (7) of us); therefore, I reserved the first movie of the day (9:20 am – 11:30 am).
I know the movie and it’s story; nonetheless, it was nice to watch Nausica with a big screen.
This is my favorite Ghibli Movie with a sentimental value.
Thank you my friend!
Originally, we had a different plan – watching Frozen 2 together; however, the situation didn’t allow us to do so.
Let’s plan something together when the situation is better.
Well, I didn’t waste them and I enjoyed watching two movies!
Japan imposed retailers to charge plastic shopping bags to save environment by reducing producing microplastics and CO2 emission on 1 July 2020.
The retails charge a plastic bag (and some for paper bags) from range of JPY 2 – JPY 20 (ISD 0.02 – USD 0.19).
Therefore, this became a memorable last free plastic shopping bag at Precce, Tokyo Midtown Roppongi.
However, some retailers such as Meidi-Ya continues to provide free shopping bags that is categorized as biomass shopping bags.
There are three types of biomass shopping bags and they are:
First, the bag is made by more than 25 percent of biodegradable material. The Meidai-Ya provides this type.
Biomass Plastics Logo by Japan BioPlastics AssociationBiomass Mark by Japan Organics Recycling Association
Second, the thickness is more than 0.05 mm that allows to reuse it and it requires to state state that it is recommended to reuse the bag on the bag itself.
Tokyo lifted Tokyo Alert and moved businesses to Step 3 on 12 June 2020 (allowing more businesses to reopen such as Karaoke Box) and schedule to allow all businesses to restart on 19 June 2020.
Movie theatre was allowed to reopen on 1 June 2020 when Tokyo shifted Businesses to Step 2.
Accordingly, Toho Cinemas Roppongi opened on 5 June 2020.
It would be nice to watch an action movie, ANNA (Russian KGB Spy Movie) on the big screen.
However, we I learned that there are new normals for watching a movie as well.
The seats are parted by one seat in between.
Even we go in a group, we need to sit according to seating arrangement; we cannot sit next each other.
There are many more NEW NORMALs at the movie theatre to practice.
At the ticketing counter, of course, operated machine is one machine a part.
When we enter, our body temperature would be checked by the thermometer which requires to face the monitor.
Well, I didn’t know every 14th of the month is TOHO CINEMAS DAY so that we can watch a movie for discounted price of JPY 1,200 or USD 12. (Normal Price is JPY 1,900 or USD 19)
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