Ebisu, with its open-air, brick-and-mortar shopping centre Ebisu Garden Place draws more sophisticated shoppers.

BBC: Seeing Tokyo along the Yamanote Line

As you climb the 463 steps leading to the summit of the dome, you appreciate the builders' first great problem: how to haul 30 million kilograms of stone, brick and mortar many meters in the air.

FORBES: Dome of the Brave

There were also unconfirmed reports that refugees were being shelled by mortar and artillery fire in the Pagarusa Valley, along Kosovo's western border with Albania, British Air Commodore David Wilby said.

CNN: 'Just go': Refugees describe terror in Kosovo