Being a Tourist

So far I haven't done a whole lot of tourist stuff, mostly because I know I have plenty of time to do tourist stuff and have been focusing more on getting settled in and finishing up some projects at work.
However, the past week some webmasters from other offices in the Asia region (plus one from Europe) visited Tokyo as part of an onsite. And we got to do lots of touristy stuff together. I think being a tourist is more fun when you have others to share it with.
The first day we had dinner at a place called Arizuki for delicious motsunabe. The 'motsu' in motsunabe is for 'guts' but it's different from, say, tripe or related intestinal bits in Chinese cooking. It was soft and melted in your mouth. We also went to Roppongi Hills Mori Tower to enjoy the view. The building is massive, and the view from the top was grand. It's rather mind blowing to be on the 50th floor with a panoramic view, and realize that there are twinkling lights of roads and houses and cars and buildings are far as the eye can see (well, except for in Tokyo Bay.) The scale of this metropolitan area is huge.
The second day we went to Asakusa, where I found that the famous entrance had my family name on the giant lantern. Awesome. I later got a cell phone charm from the gashapon machine (and in doing so convinced some other webmasters to also get charms), and was able to trade to get a charm with the lantern on it. Now my phone has my name on it! We walked around Asakusa -- definitely need to go back with my camera and do some more wandering, and shopping. Once we were done we took a water taxi down to Tsukiji Market and got some tempura for dinner.
The third day we Saturday so we went wandering around. We first went to Hamarikyu Gardens [photo] and were able to partake in a tea ceremony. Then we moved to Akihabara, where we went to Yodobashi (all I bought was a USB charger for my DSi), failed to get coffee at a maid cafe (our group was too large, and we would have ended up waiting for at least 40 minutes), then wandered around Shinjuku and Kabukicho.
Monday a few of us went to Tokyo DisneySea [photo]. We went on a few rides (Tower of Terror was great at night) and I bought a Stitch plush because I've been wanting a Stitch toy for ages. DisneySea was great because it was all decorated for Halloween -- the Mediterranean/Italian areas had a great Masque Ball theme.
Friday was my birthday, so I went out to dinner with some coworkers. A few days earlier we were talking about Indian food (namely, dosa) and so we went to Dhaba India which had some really fabulous dosa (and equally tasty butter chicken.) Then we hung out and had coffee and tea and I received tea. I have been here a month and have already acquired a sizable tea collection. Mmm, delicious! It was a good birthday, spent with good company and with good food.
I am thinking of checking out the Shirokane Book-Off tomorrow. I heard that it has a sizable selection of English paperbacks. I hope it's better than the one shelf that Shibuya Plaza Book-Off had...