Omotesando hills

Yeah finally I had a chance to go to the latest hot spot in Tokyo, Omotesando Hills. It's a shopping plaza located on the main street from Aoyama to Harajuku and designed by Tadao Ando, internationally renowned architect. His trend is the architecture whose concrete surface is totally exposed. I like Japanese traditional wooden architect but that one is hard to be barrier-free, easy to catch a fire and high maintenance required.
So in that sense, concrete-exposed buildings are very popular cause they are tough, look modern going with both in city and countryside and last long.

Omotesando Hills is no exception. It is appealing its existence in a decent way matching with its neighborhood( acutually gray and green is good color combination. The concrete's gray color goes with the zelcova tree's green lining the main avenue). Hope this building will be an architect remains for centuries.

Okay, 花より団子。Time to talk about food. In the most of the restaurants in Omotesando Hills, they set up the price range lower than that of Roppongi Hills and it gave me really good impression but that rule didn't seem to apply all the store there . My friend and I had really nice lunch and felt like dessert time. Found pretty ice cream cafe and that cafe was not crowded as others so we tried to enter....but...$15 for one scoop of an ice cream? what? How could it be that expensive? Is it an ice cream made of gold ingredient? There is also $25 sorbet made of Dom perignon. Mmmmm~~I wanna try those sometime! I know any sweet tastes good when they use good liquer so I bet this ice cream tastes damn good cause they are made by good cook with nice liquer!

Anyway since we couldn't afford those high status sweets this time we compromised with pretty Japanese sweets from Toraya in the picture. They were tasty enough.

ちょっと疲れて表参道ヒルズ開拓し足りなかったかな。次は時間もお金も余裕を持って有閑マダムもどきで突撃するぞ～。まずは館内マップ持たずに歩けるようにならないとね。