Amazed looking at the 'what I did' list of what we did in one day. More amazing, didn't seem to rush through anywhere except Yamatane.

Started the day in excellent fashion at Maccas . Before you sneer we had THE MOST DELICIOUS Maccas brekkie EVER. Instead of a muffin, the bacon and egg mc? had a muffin shaped, maple syrup flavoured, fruit (maybe) hotcake on either side. My god it was fantastic. If we'd stayed another week I could have started training for sumo. Lucky, after we ordered the menu changed from breakfast to daytime or we both would have had a second, maybe a third, then possibly a fourth...

Stomachs not nearly full enough with the hotcake things, we headed up the road to the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. The museum was once the home of the Prince Asaka family.  The house is a spectacular art deco masterpiece. Some of the glass panel doors were too amazing for words (for art deco tragics like us).

They had glass from The Hermitage on display. The glass objects, dating from the 1500s to the very early 1900s were astounding, perfectly complimented by the art deco glass of the house . Wandered around the beautiful garden for a while then went next door to the Institute of Nature Study National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo.

This is, as the name suggests, more a place of study than a museum, and is a 20 hectare park that has been planted to replicate an undeveloped Tokyo. Lakes, streams, forest, grassland. Interesting in a 'wow, this is actually in the centre of a city of 20 million people?' kind of way. The snapping tortoises were our favourites.

Meguro Art Museum was supposd to be next but when we got to the door it was closed for exhibition change. No matter, lunchtime and we'd passed Hungry Heven Hamburgers on the way there. Check out the picture. Look 'em up. They tasted even better than they looked.

Tummies topped up, train then subway then onwards and upwards, literally, as the next stop at the Mori Art Museum was on the 53rd floor of the Mori Building towering over Roppongi Hills, a very, very classy development with it's own subway stop. Two maybe?

When you get out of the lift on 52 you first go around City View, an enclosed observation deck with terrific 360 degree views of Tokyo. They had a great photographic display around the inside walls of past Le Tour (Cadel Evans, you bloody bewdy!!) and two what I would guess were very expensive bikes on display .

Then up to MAM via escalators that rise in the middle of a vast lobby clad with raw, rough sawn timber. An artwork in itself.

I'm not the hugest fan of modern art but this was a fantastic gallery. They had two exhibitions - French Window, looking at contemporary art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize (fantastic) and the MAM Project featuring Taguchi Yukihiro (equally fantastic). The 'apartment' of a Paris art collector was fab.

We strolled around the gallery like it deserved but soon enough we were back on the subway, this time bound for Ebisu.

Yamanate wasn't what I was expecting although Al enjoyed it. Their special display was more modern interpretation of classic Japanese art and I didn't like much of it at all. Hate to sound like an artistic illiterate but quite a bit of it looked like paint by numbers. Our recent visit to the Art Gallery of NSW and the exhibition of senior students' final projects left what was exhibited for dead .   Flame me now...

After that we felt the need for beer. Luckily the Beer Museum Yebisu was our next destination.

Some more kind souls saw us looking at our maps as westood confused by the station, so walked us to the start of the sky walk that leads to Yebisu Garden Place, the headquarters of Sapporo and the Beer Museum Yebisu.

No tour in English so we would have been a bit lost and besides all of the displays had English translations. Tour was 500 but included a tasting. Not sure how many you'd taste get so we did our own tasting - four different beers at 400 per glass. No, not four different beers each, four different that we shared. I know what you were thinking.

Photography museum next. This had an odd exhibition of the history of photographing children. To be honest, it was more about the history of photography and for that it was way more interesting.  All I could think of was Bill Henson. Look him up. Unfortunately access to the World Press Photograph exhibition was closed or we would also have gone to that.

Was later than we'd been on the trains when we got back to Ebisu station and it was our first experience of the 'Tokyo crush'. No-one pushing you in but people were backing up into the carriage (from the platform) and forcing people behind them further in so that they could get on.

Had dinner at a restaurant not far from the hotel. Really good meal but ordered WAY too much, again. How sad, our last dinner in Japan. We don't wanna go home!!