David and I have spent the last three days in Tokyo it has been quite a mad time as the weather is hot and sticky Tokyo is such a big big city and there are so many possibilities of what can be done on any given day. I have enjoyed our time in Tokyo but am very much looking forward to taking a fast train out of here and getting back to smaller towns and a slower pace of living. I write most of this as I head back to Tokyo after seeing David of at Narita airport. Between the trip back to Tokyo and the long trip I have tomorrow I hope to get tell you all the things we have gotten up to in Tokyo. here is a start and if I don't finish it tonight I will add another post tomorrow.
Friday the 5th July.
On Friday we flew from Sapporo to Tokyo and arrived in tokyo in the afternoon. The interesting thing about the flight was that when we were checking in our luggage the lady that was serving us informed us that because of the weather in Tokyo we may be landing at in Nagoya! The flight was a little rough and we stated our descent about 40 minutes before we were meant to arrive in Narita airport. This meant that we were not confident that we had arrived n Tokyo or not until we sore the sign on the top of the terminal building. The weather may have been quite bad as there we very few other aircraft at the airport.
After dropping bags off out our hostel in Asakusa we went for a walk in surch of food and to have a wonder around the streets. We couldn't find many restaurants that were both open (it was 4:30 ish) and served anything that looked vegetarian, instead of a proper meal we opted for baked goods. We walked past the temple but it was so crowded that instead we tried some of the smaller streets. We walked past some tiny little restaurants that had lots of green vines that were shading them. After walking around for some time trying to find a particular restaurant that served ominomiarki, we were about to give up when we found the place. It was a nice little place were you sat around a BBQ plate that was part of the table top and you got ingredients so that you could cook your own ominomiarki. It must have looked like we wouldn't know how to cook the pancake as one of the waitresses took over the cooking of our dish. It was very nice food and I tried something called apple wine which was yummy. David was still peckish when we left the restaurant so we then went in surch of a tempura restaurant. This one was much easier to find and the couple that owned the restaurant were very kind and allowed us to order off the lunch menu so that David could have the only vegetarian meal. They had covers of jazz albums on the wall and were playing jazz music, David commented on this and the owner tolled us that they had owned a tempura shop in New York for thirty years or so from the seventies to 2003. After our second dinner we went in surch of a Lawson's so that we could buy tickets to a Baseball match that was playing the next day. It was tricky trying to use the ticketing machines so we needed to ask for help from the store attendant but with there help we managed to purchase two tickets to the Sebu Lions Vs the Mariners at Sebu stadium.
Saturday the 6th of July.
Saturday we did quite a bit of commuting to get to and from places. First we walked to the Endo Tokyo museum. We could only spend an hour looking around as we needed to get out to the baseball and it was about an hour and a half out of town by train. The museum was great, it shows the history of Tokyo it has both models and artefacts to present and explain the life and urban environment at different times in Endo's history. There were lots of different models, models of houses and town streets and boats and of verying sizes from 1:1 (fullsize) to 1:10 and 1:20. The detail of these models is just fantastic, they had binoculars so that you cold have a closer look at the street skape. There were little model people doing all sorts of things including hanging up the washing and eating a slice of water mellon while leaning over the bridge.
This is all I have time for tonight I will write more tomorrow while I am on the train to Takayama.
With love,
Acushla.
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