Japan 2014 Tuesday

Tuesday

We got up and went first thing to the fish market. It took us a while to find it. All kinds of fish and people working in booths preparing the fish and packaging them and delivering them. Pretty smelly. We tried to find a place to have breakfast, but ended up just getting some kind of an egg thing on a stick.

Then we checked out of our hotel and went to some Gardens where we took a ferry to the Asakusa temple site. We sat by the nicest lady on the ferry. She had some treats (choco sticks) that she shared with us. We enjoyed them. Then she gave us a whole box of them, and then another stick apiece. She didn't speak any English, but she was so very cute in her sharing.

Cute group of Japanese school kids on our ferry

"This is the way we dry our clothes..."

Asakusa Temple near Tokyo

Cat all dressed up for the temple

Street leading up to the temple

We got some lunch at a fun sidewalk café. Very authentic Japanese food. I was accidentally given green tea instead of grapefruit juice. Yuck!

We loved these Japanese traffic helpers

Then the three of us squished into a Hackney and paid for our driver to pull us around for a bit. He was hilarious! He wouldn't stop jabbering animatedly in Japanese, despite the fact that he knew we couldn't understand a word, giving us a tour of the market and streets roundabout. 

We took the ferry back to the gardens and walked around there for a bit. 

 There was a gentleman there who took it upon himself to be our helper, showing us a particular good viewpoint and explaining rainbow bridge with its three layers-- top for cars, middle for buses and bottom for pedestrians. Nice guy.

Rainbow Bridge

We took the subway back to our hotel. We walked to the nearby LDS temple which is squished in the middle of some other buildings. What a fun sight to see.

Next-door was another fun park. After walking around a bit, Leanna drove us back to her home.