Here I am en route to the Kansai, in the famous Shinkansen:) To be well placed and try to see Mount Fuji, I'm losing a lung in the smoking car. That's where the only seats available were right window. People not stop to sit
next to me the time to do a smoke and leave their car in quiet non-smoker ... Next time I book! And I suspect that most clouds hide the mountain tops: / Within a week I think I made a first visit to Tokyo quite broad, ending yesterday by the districts of Roppongi and Odaiba. Before going to Odaiba, Friday, I spent several hours at the Tokyo National Museum, which this time was much more conventional open ^ ^ that the Edo-Tokyo Museum, it consists of several large buildings ( Japan gallery, gallery Asian gallery archaeological ...). Gallery Japan presents chronologically the history of Japan, installation of the first inhabitants to 30,000 at the end of the Edo era (1868). Including a collection of samurai armor and swords from the 12th to the 19th century, some in their lacquered scabbard. Around 13h I made a little nap in the excellent leather seats on the archaeological gallery, they think all these Japanese - whew, I just enjoy the downhill at the first stop for passengers to change cars, and a squatter place non-smoking window:)
After the museum, I took the metro towards Odaiba, an island in Tokyo Bay covered with
commercial area and the seats few large companies. A mini-Statue of Liberty was installed. In malls Odaiba, it's not just stores, far from it. Among others there are several amusement parks. Among them, the "Muscle Park" offers physical activities for children and teens. For example Frisbee with targets, musical games where you have to repeat a melody more and more complicated ... etc. A little later in the gallery is a giant park SEGA video game, Tokyo Joypolis. Another area of the island offers a shopping center where the decor is supposed to represent an Italian city, there are fountains, fake Roman columns in buildings, and a false ceiling is painted sky! Strangely the names of "streets" are in French ... A second Toyota museum is housed therein, with this time of the ancient and prestigious cars of all brands of Chevrolet, Cadillac, and even a dodoche Delorean:) Anyway, everything is done to Odaiba for the barge can feel comfortable and have fun while doing his shopping. 
Yesterday, the last day in Tokyo, I decided to visit the districts of Roppongi and Akasaka. A temple of the 17th century, Zojoji, dated 1605, is set amid a sumptuous garden. There is, except the cherry blossoms, statues, ancient trees and a huge bell. Just behind the main building of the temple stands the Tokyo Tower, ugly copy of the Eiffel Tower but beyond a few feet - I just made a cross on the Fujiyama, the sky is definitely too cloudy ... Roppongi is a district renowned for its nightlife (bars, restaurants and nightclubs). There are also two giant shopping malls, to change, called Tokyo Midtown and Roppongi Hills. The latter also serves as a cultural center, it houses several museums and events such as Roppongi Night which took place at the moment I passed (I did not understand the theme but a huge ball-shaped robot cyclops floated at the foot of the towers, with the J-pop background music). 
So there I went to explore the South of Japan, starting with Kyoto, the undisputed cultural capital. I have booked 4 nights. This should allow me to spend two days in Kyoto and two days around within reach of train - Nara, Osaka and Mount Koya.
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