Up Down Up Down Up Down

We have been up & down subways, up sky towers, over here, back up there I’m exhausted!

Breakfast was at a lovely little bakery in the train station that I’m glad I didn’t discover any earlier.

Today we brought a 24 hour metro pass (totally recommend it the metro is easy to use & with a good map we had the official Tokyo travel guide I grabbed at the airport, so easy to get around) & went exploring. Stop one was Asakusa where we joined the crowds & wandered through a shopping street to see the Sensoji Temple. It was quite busy & quite a wait to get our books stamped. From there a quick train ride which wasn’t on our pass and up the Skytree. We did both levels so 450m high I think at one point, they also had a little Barbie display so it was all a bit pink. The view was interesting I could spot DisneySea but Fuji must have heard we were going for a sneak preview & was behind the clouds, fingers crossed for tomorrow. We lunched at a food hall very similar to our food halls including trying to find a seat but some really nice cleaners chased us & said they saved us a seat, totally nice of them. We wanted to get to the Meiji Jingu shrine in time to get a stamp so we went from one side of Tokyo to the other & im glad we did. As soon as we walked into those trees the city noise just disappeared. And it appears while I’m on holidays I have a habit of coming across weddings, there appeared to be what we think were several services going on, of course we stopped & watched. Last stop on our whirlwind metro ride was the palace, it was early 5 when we got there but we walked through a park and all we really found was some guards, gates & trees that looked like they belong in Dr Suess book.

I have noticed some of the older ladies at our hostel have been nicer than the younger ones & have sparked some conversations which has been nice. Tomorrow we say goodbye to Tokyo and head for Fuji let’s hope she’s less shy for the next couple of days.

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Ps that is a plastic pizza hat I’m wearing we stumbled across a plastic food shop, just be thankful I’m not bringing you all home a plastic shrimp or diy plastic ramen set.