17 November 2024
Hot under the covers
Musashi-Koyama Palm Shotengei
Tonight I went to a busy under cover shopping street that is a bit out of the way but thriving, the "Palm" at Musashi-Koyama. It is possibly Italian themed. Why is it called the palm then? These mixed messages are confusing, they need dinosaurs fast, and only dinosaurs.
The location is west of Shinagawa, there is only one subway line to get there and even that is unusual in that it changes names multiple times along it's journey, including but not limited to the Meguro line and the Nambuko line. So if you need to get to the palm, study the map first.
Once you get there, it is a covered shopping street with about 5 supermarkets. A real place for locals rather than tourists. But it was also very hot, not that the temperature was the fault of the shopping street, it is just generally hot. The subway stations are especially hot, but in good news it will be cooler tomorrow and for the rest of the week. In bad news it will rain tomorrow. I cannot believe how old I am, talking at length about the weather when I could have been talking about the Italian themed palm shopping street some more.
Here is the palm, in all it's glory. It is quite long too.
Mixed messages. It is the palm, there are Italian flags everywhere, and a lot of giant heads of this guy. Stay on message! They need to get to Fukui fast.
Here is my dinner. If it is possible to deep fry, Japan will find a way.
The shopping street has some offshoots too, which quickly become abandoned and gloomy.
At the end of the gloomy bit, a really dark NIGHT SHRINE. All caps for possible band name.
After shrining for a while I decided to head back to the light, Italian flags (light poles) lead the way.
And for my last pic of the night, strap in, this will be peak nonsense. This is a French themed all frozen food supermarket named 'Picard' as in Jean-Luc located in Japan, which is similar to the 'Iceland' chain that is based in England. Yes, I managed to fit 4 country names into a sentence describing bags of frozen peas.
Tomorrow is not a hiking day, due to a combo of rain and remaining days in my schedule on this trip.