Tokyo view from Roppongi

This summer we visited Roppongi Hills with my partner. It is a wonderful, busy, bustling part of Tokyo, teeming with business, restaurants, cafe, ice cream parlours and impressive architecture.

In the superb Mori Arts Center Gallery - also in the towers, like the Mori Art Museum - we saw an excellent and fun exhibition on

Around Roppongi there were hundreds Doraemons, obviously very popular both with kids and adults. The event was probably similar to this one.

Inside the towers there are several restaurants, ranging from pricy elegant ones serving kobe beef to the more budget friendly but still very nice mid-range sushi restaurants. We had a pleasant sushi lunch. Next to us a small kid and his mom were sitting, and I could witness first hand that kids - as in any other country - can have their difficulties with cutlery, in this case with chopsticks.

And there is a wonderful view from the towers on the downtown Tokyo.

Hungarian architect and blogger bonakovacs also has a nice entry on the area around Christmas, when the Roppongi Hills and the Midtown towers are competing with each other in who can put on the more mesmerizing Christmas-lights show.