Hugo and Julie in Roppongi Hills with the Christmas LightsWe had a wonderful time with Henry, Cat, Hugo and his good friend, Ryan, joining us here in Tokyo for the holiday season. The weather was fine, clear and cool with blue skies. We enjoyed a traditional Christmas interspersed with visits to temple and shrines and Mt. Fuji. The young took side trips to Kyoto and Osaka. Probably the highlight of their time here was New Year's Eve, where we followed dinner at a restaurant called Gonpachi (where a famous scene from the movie, Kill Bill, was supposed to have been filmed) with seeing in the New Year at a shrine nearby, where the Tokyo Tower was the backdrop for thousands of clear helium balloons rising up as the new year was chimed in by Buddhist bells.
Henry making a wish at a temple in Kamakura
