Konnichiwa from Tokyo

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Well, We made it safe and sound to the first leg of our trip. Japan is an amazing country so far, both in beauty,culture and people that we have seen. We cant believe how Tokyo, a city of 12 Million people can be so clean (even with no garbage cans around). The transit system is very good, however looking at a map is like looking at a bowl of noodles that are all different colours. It is massive, stretching all over the city. The hard part is trying to find the correct station.

We have seen many things already, none as impressive as the grounds for the Imperial Palace. It is amazing! The attention to detail is incredible in the landscaping. We even saw 4 guys on their hands and knees picking blades of grass off of a pebble path, as to not dusturb the pebbles.........It seems that everything the Japanese do, they make sure it is perfect.

The Tsukiji fish market was awsome as well. It is chaos. Thousands of people running around with deadfish everywhere! They ride around on small buggys and dont slow down for anything and dont stop for much. You really need to keep your head up. Then, once you navigate through the crazy market, you make it to the Auction. Tuna is up for grabs, and selling like crazy!! It sounds like Wall street, but with fish......huge dead fish, with hundreds of men at the ready to haul away the huge fish as soon as they are sold. We even got to eat some tuna cut off of a afish bought at the market. It was amazing.

Well, we need to go and see more things to write about.

Sayonara everyone!!!

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Photos

Bon Voyage
Us at the airport after a few tears (ok...just me)

The Fish Market
What a crazy busy place! This was where the yellow fin tuna were being auctioned off.

Erin hacking up a tuna going to Canada
This was the highlight of the fish market. The guy brought us over to take some pics and have some fresh tuna sashimi...THE BEST WE HAVE EVER HAD!!!

Foot Massage (kindof)
We found this podeum with all these bumps and a picture of feet...not being able to read Japanese, we are fairly confident they were to to work at the pressure points on your feet, so we walked on them (well, tried to walk on them). I cant say it was comfortable, but it truly felt very good after...gotta get me one of those at home, or I will just stick to the golf ball.

Tokyo - Ginza District
The Ginza district is known for the high end stores...Prada, Gucci, Tiffany. Within our budget, no problem.

Cows in Toyko???
We found it quite odd that Toyko has cows all around central Tokyo (Calgary's are better). Cameron...look closely, you will find your little friend in this one =).

The Samurai(s)???
Yes...it took Trevor back to the days of the Samurai.

The Imperial Palace
You have to sign up for a special tour to go in, so this is as close as we get.

Imperial Palace
This is one of the the gates of the Imperial Palace. Trevor could not believe how heavy duty the doors were. They had wood about 1ft thick!

Comments

[Ian]

Hey pics are great. It looks beautiful there. Thanks for the email I'll type ya guys back soon. Love ya