If You want to have tasty but not expensive food in Japan, I recommend Gyoza King. Soups, dumplings and meat-vegetable mixes are some of the menu propositions.

On the other hand, if You seek something special, one of yaki-niku restaurants, where fried beef is being served, will be the right place to go.

Before I visited Japan, I have read an article about a case when Japanese agriculture minister rejected the proposition of import beef from United States for a reason, it isn't good enough for japanese stomachs.

It sounds funny until You try yaki-niku. The meat appears to be incredibly tender and tasty.

British Burger King offers a most expensive hamburger in the world. Apart from white truffle, Pata Negra ham, cristal onion sprouts, pink Himalayan salt and Iranian curcuma a wagyu beef, also known as Kobe beef, is being used there.

The price of such delicacy is 95 GBP.

Let us go back to the restaurant in San-gen-jaya though.

Different parts of raw and spiced meat is being served on small plates. Apart from the meat, different kinds of side dishes make the meal complete. Korean kim-chi (spicy cabbage) is one of Japanese favorites.

Small coal grill is mounted in every table. One of the popular ways of eating yaki-niku is wrapping salad leaf around rice and the meat flavoured with special sauce.

Unfortunately, yaki-niku is very expensive even for the Japanese.

Another popular dish, "tako-yaki", can be classified as Japanese fast food. Octopus tentacles fried in pancake-like dough is being served with sauces.

Back in Ueno. Edible seaweed is being sold on this stall. Fantastic for salads!

Common opinion about unconventional food products is - those have interesting taste. That usually means - "disgusting, but there are people who like it, obviously".

I like it a lot, and not only because it is new for me.

Here's another delicacy - roe of fish or other sea creatures.

What about bread? Well, anything is available, but standard option is white cottonish type of baking.

Most of the names on products (especially ones of foreign origin) are labelled with katakana characters. It is very useful to learn it, especially if we are not fond of donuts stuffed with bean paste.

The person on this drawing must have been seriously crippled. Or maybe the painter wasn't very good. Yeah, that's more likely.

Walking down the alley from Omotesando to Harajuku makes me realize how densely populated Tokyo actually is.

The closer to Harajuku, the more "Harajuku Fashion" examples met on the way.

Every Saturday, next to the JR Harajuku station, large amount of people not of this world gather and... wait for other people to watch them.

They could also be described as otaku, as they go in for dressing up with true passion.

The most common types of dressed up people are as follows:

• lolita - clothes graced with laces, like ones worn by French maids
• gothic lolita - same as above but more gloomy
• uniform - school uniforms
• romantic punk - the name speaks for itself
• kuguramin - characters of anime

Click here to se moore of "Harajuku Fashion".

I enter the majestic Yoyogi park. A wall made of sake barrels has been placed at the entrance.

Sake is often being mistaken with stronger shochu (don't cross wires with Korean soju), which is not stronger than 25% of alcohol anyway. Sake is usually 17% strong and is being called wine even though production process resembles beer.

The Japanese hardly use alcohol as strong as vodka or whisky. Their organisms tend get wasted quickly what I have experienced several times as propagator of Slavic culture among Asians.

Meiji Jingu is a very popular place. Almost every Saturday a traditional wedding is held here.

Procession walks into the shrine grounds with an acolyte playing the drum in the background.

At the end of the ceremony the bride, her family and other involved people go to the house next to the temple.

Shortly after we too entered the house. A woman dressed in a beautiful kimono walked towards us and talked with Masami for couple of minutes. After they both bowed, smiled and separated we left the building. Masami told me, the woman was very rude by kicking us out. We were unwanted.

When did she kick us out, I didn't notice.

For an European not familiar with the nuances of Japanese culture insulting someone only by changing the level of politeness is somewhat abstract.

The other day, when I visited Yoyogi alone, I left the park by another exit. On the way to the next train station, I run in the Japanese Communist Party Central Comittee. I didin't realize comminism also influented Japan at some level.

During many walks around the city I had a chance to admire the efficiency of Tokio railways. The city is covered with tracks very densely - sometimes three different lines cross in one spot, like here, on the picture.

When it started raining I found shelter in one of media stores when one of exposed photo albums caught my eye. The title was "Tokyo Nobody". At the first glance all the pictures of Tokyo streets looked normal. Except for one detail - no people whatsoever!

I don't think computer processing was involved here. Someone noticed long exposure times could do the trick. That's possible, I have to try it myself.

Usually Tokyo streets swarm with people. Is that possible to ask them all to get out of the frame?