Monday, April 19, 2010

DAY 9-Tokyo

Today, we will explore the old Tokyo by starting at Asakusa. We will visit the Sensoji Temple (aka kannon temple) and the nearby shopping street called Nakamise where souvenirs and local traditional snacks are sold.

It is very crowded at the temple today, it seems that everyone in Tokyo are all here. It feels like a carnival as there are many rows of shop set up to sell gifts and food. Some are items that may supposedly bring you better luck for the New Tiger Year.

Although, it may be crowded but it a orderly chaos. If you know what i mean, the Japanese are so well mannered.






Look at the number of food stands here, so much food and they all look so yummy.




Guess, what are they doing? They are making Mochi!

After all that chaos, we finally found a small Kiosk selling Ramen. It is really interesting, you select your order at the vending machine, make payment and wait for your receipt. Pass the receipt to the service staff to exchange for your noodle.


Next, we proceed to Odaiba (man-made Island) where we will be able to see the Fuji-Tv Building and walk on the Rainbow Bridge. We didn't know that everything look so futuristic on the island!


This is the Rainbow bridge, we actually decided to walk on the bridge to get on to the island instead of take the train. It was took us about 40 mins to reach there and it is free.

Fuji-Tv Station


After the long walk, we were happy that we saw this vending machine! Ice-cream!


Can you imagine we actually walk the entire bridge?


We actually manage to catch a glimpse of the sunset Mt Fuji. We saw a huge group of people standing around with their camera phone, and when we look closer we realise that mount Fuji was there. It is never easily to see it, but i guess we were very lucky.

























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