After a week of constant travel, we really were quite exhausted. "Taking it easy" was what we wanted to do...and we did do just that on the 10th day in Japan...but not on the 8th. We headed to Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo early in the morning with our tour guide, my aunt Hitomi. It was a pretty crazy place, with a hoard of tourists, restaurateurs, chefs, etc. It was hard just staying out of the way of the people who were trying to get seafood for their businesses. It was amazing to see the array of seafood sold at this place. It's not like anything you would see in Newport, that's for sure!
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| Tuna at Tsukiji fish market |
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Next, we headed to Asakusa to see the Senso-ji temple there. I had been here several times before, but it was Craig's first time...and I think he enjoyed himself. For any complaints about crowds we may have had in any of the other sites, this place was definitely one of the busiest places we'd been to thus far.
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| Kaminarimon, the outer gate of the temple |
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| Great red lantern and the bottom of one of the lanterns |
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| Hachiko statue in Shibuya and another lantern (at Senso-ji)...sorry about mixing pics here. ps...there's a movie about Hachiko. I have yet to see it. |
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As usual, we stumbled upon a few random shrines...
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Then we finally made our way to the Tokyo Tower. I should mention that we did get a few glimpses of the Tokyo Sky Tree...People in general seemed to be pretty excited about this building. We may have to see it next time we're in Japan, when the building's construction is completed.
Anyway, we hung out at the Tokyo Tower for a while, and waiting until sunset to see them turn on the lights on the tower...it was a long day, but we were happy to get so much out of it:)
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