We had a nice meal of pastries, coffee, and eggs together in chiekos kitchen before Eliza and I headed out for the day. We had a packed agenda so we had no daylight to waste!
We started with checking out the parasite museum, something that Eliza had been requesting to see months ago. Unfortunately I didn't take note of directions to the place and we had no internet access. However I did remember the are it was in, and after asking a lot of people we made it to our destination!
Inside the museum were a whole bunch of little liquid filled jars with all sorts of weird and creamy looking things preserved inside. Everything had little descriptions but everything was in Japanese so we were left to our imaginations.
After taking a pic.with a giant tape worm we were off to Tokyo tower! It was only a few short stops away.
The metro let us out about 1km away from the tower, but we could see it in the distance the whole time as we walked towards it.
When we arrived we bought tickets to head up to the observation deck. Whe took a glass elevator up and when we arrived we were treated to a nice panorama of the city.
We lingered around for 20 min or so before making our way back down. On the way down we found some kiddie rides. Picture time!
After pictures we left the building. We didn't get very fat however because there was a monkey show going on outside. This monkey could do everything! Stilts, handstands, jumping while hand standing, and best of all, slapping its trainer :)
After the show we had lunch for very good prices. 550 yen for a curry rice and soba noodle soup.
Then it was off to the famous Ginza shopping district. When we arrived we went straight to the famed 4 Chrome crossing. The first thing you see in all directions are huge expensive stores. It looks as if they close the road everyday or on weekends because umbrellas and chairs were set up on the road with people sipping their espressos.
It was neat to see but Eliza and I aren't really big shoppers so we headed back to the train and off to Asakusa.
Asakusa has a famous temple and giant tourist trinkets market. Being Saturday it was packed! So many little stores to buy souvenirs and other neat things. Eliza and I did the majority of our gift shopping here because the prices were reasonable and the stuff was neat.
It was getting late so we sped off to see our last place in Tokyo: Harajuku. It's on the opposite side of town from Asakusa so it took a good 35 min to get there.
It was dark by the time we arrived but that was ok because we got to see all the fancy lights! We walked up and down the main street through crowds of people and then checked out a side street.
We found ourselves quickly inside a Kiddieland store oogling at all the ghibli and rilakuma toys.
The second floor had equally cool stuff but more focused on an older demographic and much more neat electronic stuff. I could have easily spent lots of money there.
After the toy store we were getting tired so we headed home to Chieko's house for a fantastic home cooked salty sumo hot pot! Chieko had even bought yuba and sake for me. It was the perfect meal to cap off our incredible trip to Japan including a nice surprise birthday cake for me. Thanks for the great meal Chieko!
After diner we chatted further and then headed to sleep after getting our bags ready for the flight home the next day.
Omg totoro heaven... I'd go nuts in there. I would hug them all!!!
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