"Living" in Tokyo

Hi ladies and gents, and hello from Tokyo! Our apartment is right in the centre of a residential suburb in Yoyogi (we can walk to Shinkuku park and the Yamanote Loop Line is, at most, a 10 minute walk). Lawson Convince Stores abound in this neighbourhood (2 within 100m of the apartment) although I'm personally keeping my eyes pried for a Family Mart.

The apartment itself is right beside the freeway, buy double glazed windows mean that noise isn't too bad. We're just enjoying looking out at the Tokyo skyline, and we'll be heading to the Tokyo Metropolitan building to visit the observatory and pick up our gruntt passes which, despite the funny name, it a really cool way to get access to Lloyd of Tokyo's museums, galleries and zoos, very cheaply. On a clear day, you can see Fuji Sama from the observatory, but it's quite overcast here today, so photos of Fuji Sama will have to wait until Thursday (fingers crossed).

Did you know, Mount Fuji is called Fuji Sama because the Japanese people revere it so highly, they give 'him' an honourific usually reserved for humans?

Lastly, summer hiragana practice ... We're in an elevator ... What does the hiragana in red say? What does it do?