Mad Tokyo, Day 3

11 Dec 07, Tue

It's Asakusa, Ueno and Ginza for the day. There's lotsa photo-taking and more food this time round. Yet, we're still almost starved to death before it's time for dinner again

While on the train towards Asakusa, we saw this courtesy seat sign that was slightly different from ours.

Yet again, Orange dozed off.

Oh no I've forgotten if this unique designer building was Asahi Beer Tower?!

It looks like a golden bitterguard.

Believed this to be Kappabashi Shopping Street. It serves restaurants, sale of uniforms and furniture.

The sign for Kaminarimon Gate spotted.

Musical Huge Seiko clock on the center’s façade performs every hour from 10am-7pm.

Rickshaws

Kaminarimon Gate

Check out the enormous lantern! By the way, if you've not eaten breakfast, you can look forward Tokiwado Confectionary shop and Kaminari Okoshi – rice-based sweets (9am-9pm) on the left of the gate.

Rickshaw pullers that look like ninjas. They offer rides packages but kinda expensive. I rather spend my money on food!

Souvenirs

Nakamise shopping street where you can taste traditional cakes. Daily 9am-7pm.

Spotted some camera-crew workers.

And a beatiful actress! (courtesy of Orange)

Traditional rice cakes.

It's not really sweet and fragance from the black sesame is not over-whelming too...

Tidbits! Owner is making them on the spot.

We saw this shop selling some old army stuff and all. Trying take pic discretely.

Another gate before Sensoji Temple

An Orange tree

Buy your fortune by putting Yen100 into wooden box and shaking it until a long bamboo stick emerges from small hole.

Base on the no. on the stick, find the box with the same no. that holds your fortune.

I'd gotten a bad fortune!

If you have a bad fortune, remember to tie the paper to this rack.

And if you have any pain on any part of your body or gotten a flu, sweep the smoke from this incense burner to that particular part. Said to cure illness.

Remember to drink some of the water too.

And wash your hands.

Sensoji Temple

Giant sandals

We caught students from 2 schools and got their teacher to take pic of them with us. They really enjoyed it!

Semi-round sliding toilet. I never counted how many cubicles there were but each cubicle was quite small and was the squatting style.

Shin-Nakamise shopping street, perpendicular to Nakamise shopping street. Time for lunch. (Photo courtesy of Missy)

We decided on this sushi shop operating by conveyor belt.

Green tea powder is provided freely for your own brew. Turkey feedbacked that the green tea was so effective in clearing the oil off her system after the meal. You know what I mean?

Crab meat (not stick, mind you!) sushi

Look at that sweetened egg roll!

(Photo courtesy of Missy)

This is a combo of salmon eggs, salmon skin and salmon. Very mixed up but still good taste and feeling. (Photo courtesy of Missy)

My favourite. I always go for the tuna 1st.

Follow by Unagi. It's gigantic!

Salmon belonged to Turkey.

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Couldn't remember what this was. Tuna may be? But it's crunchy and leaves a tangy feel on the tongue.

Surrender! The most rice I'd eaten this trip so far. Even though I'd shared them with Turkey.

The verdict? See for yourself!

We made use of the lockers found at the Shinjuku station and packed away our purchases before we went off to another location.

Ameya Yokocho - a narrow shopping street selling sneakers and clothes at discounted price (10am-7pm).

Fresh seafood. The sellers will start cutting the prices once it's late.

There are so many retail shops of sneakers.

I found this particular pair very cool.

Right after this, we spotted 2 huge stores selling tidbits, choc and dried seafood. You can imagine us went amok and stuffed them all into our shopping baskets.

We found a cafe to rest our legs and quench our thirsts. Both smoking and non-smoking areas were within the cafe.

Hard Rock Cafe

Takashimaya Times Square @Shinjuku

Spotted Krispy Kreme opposite Takashimaya Times Square. There was a long queue and it was getting late plus we were starving.

We went back to Shinjuku for our dinner. We walked quite a distance and after a few eateries before we found here. It was about 9+pm thus most of them were already closed. There was one that was operated by ordering and paying via a machine which we missed the chance.

Another set meal ordered. I wonder how do Japanese manage to stay slim when their set meal always combine a rice bowl and a noodle.

Back at hotel where we started packing our goodies. My luggage was dedicated to all these delicacies only! These included wasabi pistacho X 2-3 big packs, dried scallops X 2-3 big packs, assortment of choc X >5 packs, assortment of sweets X >2 packs and etc. Ooh! And not forgetting those from Asakusa.