Our Ginza hotel, Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER.
The 2nd floor is the hotel's restaurant.
Hotel rooms start from the 3rd floor and up.

Outside the Sato Yosuke Ginza Inaniwa Udon restaurant (佐藤養助銀座稻庭烏龍麵)

We all ordered hot udon noodle soup with a side of tempura.
The noodle soup was very flavorful, although it looked very plain.

(Ginza) Kimuraya, 木村家 bakery.
According to Wikipedia and the store's history web page, an unemployed former samurai named Yasubei Kimura, 木村安兵衛,
wanted to learn to be a baker. Furthermore, he wanted to put sweet fillings (red bean paste) into a bread
to be enjoyed as a sweet dessert, just like manju.
He succeeded. Hence he is the inventor of Japanese anpan, 紅豆麵包.
The shop has been in Ginza for a long time.

We went to the 2nd floor's cafe to enjoy an afternoon sweet.
There was a wait queue too. We waited for about 20 minutes to be seated.
This was a typical anpan set with black tea.

There was also a pie-shaped bread with red bean filling. One might order a slice with tea.
And then there were the red beans paste with matcha ice cream.
 

On every Sunday afternoon, several blocks of the Ginza Chuo dori were free of cars.
Pedestrians could walk in the middle of the street.

Where to eat a good dinner without walking too far from our hotel?
We went to Matsuya Department Store (松屋百貨) at 銀座2丁目, where they had several restaurants
on the 8th floor that were open late even after the department store was closed at 8 pm.
We had unagi at a restaurant called Miyagawa, 宮川.
This unagi was very good.

The 12-story stationary store, Itoya 伊東屋 in Ginza.

Chester purchased a PARKER 51 fountain pen 萬年筆 with gold trim at Itoya.

Another day we walked past the Ginza Sembikiya (千疋屋).
Originally a fruit store but evolved into making many desserts with fruits.

If you have been on a Signet Tours (超値旅遊), you may remember the tour guide
took you to see a store in Ginza with expensive melons. This is that store.
A melon costs 16,000 JPY, which is more than US$100.

The 12-story Uniqlo Ginza store.
Very popular with international visitors.
I found that some of the clothing items (size and color) that were sold out in this store
could still be found at Uniqlo stores elsewhere, such as in Asakusa.

One evening, MC went to Shinjuku (新宿) for a look and see.
This is a landmark sight of Shinjuku.

This part of Shinjuku was very crowded.

The giant 3D cat on the screen in east Shinjuku attracted throngs of onlookers.
(The cat moves and teases the audience too.)

On 10/31, MC went to Asakusa to meet with Keiko-san to attend a concert.

Tōkyō Taishū Kayō Gakudan (東京大衆歌謠樂團) was celebrating
its 15th anniversary by giving a concert at Asakusa Public Hall.

Keiko-san (in the photo) showed me the spot in Sumida Park (隅田川公園) where the band used to perform in the
early days. If you watch this video below, you'll recognize the spot with the tree and a large wooden post with map.
The band certainly has come a long way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxxqwWtsX8

Asakusa Public Hall.
Our seats were on the 1st floor, seat #1 & 2 on row 14. We had a very good sight line to the stage.

I took this photo from the back of the 2nd floor.
The 1000 seats were almost full for the concert except for the very back of the 3rd floor.

The red envelope I gave to Kotaro.
He remembered seeing this envelope before.
 

お見送り, seeing off at the lobby after the conclusion of the concert.
Since there were about 1000 people in the audience, the band could not meet and shake hands with everyone,
so a young man in a suit who seemed to work for the band announced that only those fans who had joined
the band’s "Friends' Association"(友の会) were eligible to line up. Therefore, I took a few photos from afar.

The #2 and #4 brothers at the お見送り, seeing off.