He once proposed visiting Ginza to his schoolmate Akira HASHIMOTO (a cousin of former Prime Minister, Ryutaro HASHIMOTO) in his school days (to be exact, on the day when he finished the final examination in his third year of Gakushuin High School).
学生時代（学習院高等科3年の試験が終わった日）学友である橋本明（橋本龍太郎の従兄弟）に「銀座にいきたい」と相談した。