Japan Day 3 (Tokyo)

For previous day see Moscow / Day 1 / Day 2

Clean clothes, feeling fresh and not losing time with breakfast : it's tourist mood ON ! (σ・∀・)σ

Having interests in everything and travelling to visit only, hat's how this man raised me. We grabbed some melon pans and milk at the Lawson, hot tea and coffee at a vending machine and ate them while walking and in the subway, heading to the area of the Tokyo Dome !

There is an amusement park around the Tokyo Dome. My dad and I both have fear of heigts but decided to try this one attraction to get a nice view from higher. I courageously took some pictures.

JUMP shooop ! (≡^∇^≡)

We had some kare rice before heading to the Edo Castle.

We visited the Edo Castle for maybe 30mins, then the cool woman voice said it was closing for today. We then walked from there to Ginza.

People were queuing on a whole street to get some Belgian waffles. The name comes from our Manneken Pis.

We went back to Asakusa, went to the Lawson to get some instant noodles that looked tasty in the morning plus a anko-sakura cream pancake. We share a kitchen/living room with others people of the guest house, and got to talk with many kind of foreigners, I found this very enriching~

Day 4 will be in Shibuya/Harajuku/Omotesando/etc !

Japan Day 2 (Tokyo)

For previous days see Moscow / Day 1

The second day started without luggages again (/ω＼). We decided to go out early to get at least some underwears and wash our clothes on the rooftop. Unless the shops in Tokyo only open at about 10AM. So we headed to the Senso-ji first.

In front of the Kaminarimon and the Hozomon, the entrance gates to the Sensô-ji. You can see I was quite embarrassed to play the tourist (〃∇〃). These places are actually quite impressive IRL.

Sadly, through my pictures you can't even imagine how big and impressive the Sensô-ji is. It's also so lively you feel the urge to be a part of it. With my dad we processed to the symbolic hand washing and mouth rinsing, then bought incense sticks and burnt them (though I did the same move to aim the smoke to my face as Japanese people did, I still don't know what it means... anyone ?). I also had some difficulties to put my sticks in, since it failed the first time and I had to get it back from the hot ashes (＞＜;)

There are smaller temples around the Sensô-ji and as it was a matsuri period, there were many food stalls in between. Very colourful !ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

That's also when we discovered food tickets machines. We were looking at the nearby restaurants and were amazed by people choosing and paying for their food from outside. We discovered later it's actually pretty common in Japan (＾～＾). This way cooks don't have to touch your dirty money.

After eating we finally went to buy (too big) underwears and basics t-shirts at UNIQLO. We planned to come back to the guest house, have a shower while our clothes get washed...

Finallyyyyy ≧(´▽｀)≦

Later this day we headed to Ueno. We ate dinner at a stall directly in the street (you also have my dad's bare pate in bonus). The man was super happy to see a foreigner and tried to speak in English when I ordered bubble tea "tapioca !" (^ε^)♪. I ordered a kind of buns, and understood I had to make a hole, put the sauce in, drink the sauce, then eat (^ε^).

I have no picture worth showing from the park or anything, since it was too damn dark. We headed back to Asakusa at about 10PM and I spent some time in the kitchen with my computer, saying to my mom how awesome Japan is ☆

Day 3 will be around the Tokyo Dome !