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Asakusa
Outside the Main Temple We don’t seem to bet getting used to the time change. We up at 4am and for some reason need to take a nap at about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. So we get up and take a quick subway ride to this fish market. We get to see the first catches have come in (since were there at 5:30 am) and the shops just starting to open. These people do everything possible with a fish. They dry it and shave it, roast it, pickle it, and cut it up 1000 different ways. They transport the stuff with these 3 wheeled electric carts, and they’re damn busy too. These guys are running all over and in a hurry. They have like 400 pound tunas they carry. So we walk for a while and Amanda is drooling so we decide to stop and eat breakfast at a sushi shop. We get a plate with a tuna cut roll, 2 or 3 pieces of some kind of tuna I can’t name, 1 piece of albacore, and 2 pieces of mid grade Toro. Then we order a piece of high grade Toro each. This stuff was so fresh it was still warm,
Boob pudding
only in Japan. and only 300 yen!!! and it melted like butter, we should have ordered some shrimp though. They have an aquarium where they keep those guys, still swimming. The Sushi was awesome and there is no way you could get this stuff in the US. It only cost us about 2500 yen about 22 USD. The Toro was 514 yen a slice. From there we walk around a bunch more, Amanda had some squid Ink ice cream. I don’t know how it tasted because I wouldn’t go near it. She says it was good though. So we get back to our Hostel and head to the Asauksa temple/market. This place is packed in this little street from end to end with little shops selling and making stuff like Dongos (squishy spheres of sweet rice covered in soy sauce and brown sugar), osembe’s (rice crackers), and manjiu (a little bean cake thingie). They also have tons of shops selling handbags and random stuff like that. It reminded me of a swap meet. We went into the temple and took some pictures and basically explored the place. We did see a lot of sick children. It was sad seeing all these people with a kid that couldn’t
Buddah
There is a Buddah sneaking up on me. walk so they wheeled them into the temple tossed out a few hundred yen and the whole family prayed, from the mother and father to the littlest kid that could walk.
After the market it was time for lunch, finally I get my Ramen. We found this shop the first day I wanted to back to it. We both got a bowl of Chashu Ramen and I got beer to go with it. Apparently the beer only comes in a 20 oz size; something I later discovered was defiantly not a problem. It was a quiet lunch, a little slurping, and some drinking and then I asked if Amanda was going to finish hers. She didn’t but I sure did. So stuffed and buzzed at about 1:30 on a Tuesday we headed back to the room for a little rest. Our quick one hour nap turned into a 2 and a half to three hour nap, we awoke and headed back out. We went to Shinjiuku, a shopping district a short train ride away. After our little incident with getting lost in the subways we can navigate the transportation system pretty well now. We walked and walked and walked,
CC lemon
She finally got her 170 lemons worth of vitamin C. saw shop after shop of electronics and gadgets galore. Their phones are pretty damn interesting. I thought they would be small, but they have actually grown larger. The display twists and turns and does more than just make a phone call. After walking for about 4 hours ( I got the idea to buy a pedometer) we headed back. Got to our room and we had a free drink coupon at this bar. We headed out. After about an hour we finally found this bar (the directions sucked) and proceed to partake. We ended up spending about 3000 yen (all drinks were 333 yen each) we met this girl Christine I think her name is, she is from Scotland. She decided after spending a one week vacation here that she wanted to take a break from school and live here for a year. She is working at one of the hostels for a little pay and a room. She’s been here for a week and I guess its going well. We bid our new friend good luck and proceeded to stumble home at about 1 am. That would be about 9 AM California time.
This place seems to have
Crazy ass phones
the ohones are getting bigger. no crime at all. There are bikes left unlocked and arcades open on the street that show absolutely no signs of vandalism at all. It’s like everyone takes pride in their city. Also all road construction is done quietly at night. And they only start what they can get done in one night so they don’t interrupt traffic the next day, what an idea!!
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