Gosh oh mighty, time dose fly when you are having fun. Five weeks are up and it is time to squeeze everything back into my suitcase plus one or to suviners and get ready to fly back to Melbourne tomorrow afternoon. I got up and made my way to the Tsukiji Market out in Ginza, it is open to the public as of 9am so that we don't get in the way during the busy time between 5 and 8 am. It was a truly spectacular sight, I don't belive I have ever seen so many dead fish before, or any meat for that matter, all in one place and the vast majority of it had already been sold and was packed up and shipped out to the different restaurants and fish shops of Tokyo. Row upon row of stalls with boxes, tanks or freezers of fish, crustations and squid. I saw a couple of hole tunas - I never realised how big they were. The sellers had saws to cut up the tuna as knives would be to difficult. Quite surprisingly it didn't smell that bad, of cause of fish but not nearly as awful as I imagined it could be with the shear quantity of fish that they had in one area.
Once I left the market went in search of the Nagakin capsule tower by Kisho Kurokawa. After quite a walk, a few dead ends and being very worried that my umbrella would turn inside out because of the wind I found the tower. With my great powers of navigation/luck/ persistence I went in search of a jazz cafe that had been recommended to me. I did find the cafe but as it was only 11:30 they were closed, it will just have to wait until the next time I am in Tokyo. The rain and wind only getting worse it was time to find a cafe for an early lunch and a spot of reading.
After lunch it was off to the 21-21 design sight to see an exhibition on Ikko Tanaka- a Japanese designer. I was a wonderful exhibition and a great building as well. After the exhibition the sun was shining so I spent the next while reading in the park. Then walked back to Azabujuban as the sen set. I have spent the last thirty minutes packing my bag so I don't have to tomorrow. All that is left to do this evening is to go out to my good bye dinner with Keir. I cant believe I will be back in Melbourne on wednesday. See you all soon!
P.s. to be hones my I didn't have to squeeze anything into my suitcase as I don't have that much stuff and the bag is sufficiently big. I used the word squeezed for dramatic effect only.
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