Saturday, June 16, 2012

Sight seeing Tokyo Day 1

despite the 50 mg diphenhydramine-- i still woke up evey hour on the hour. finally at eight am we decided it was time to get up. lori showered first in our tub shower with water coming from the nearby sink then andrea hopped in the shower. meanwhile—luis our couchsurfer we picked up at the airport—headed downstais for breakfast. it was a buffet with lots of interesting things. raw eggs included. we had some scrambled eggs, noodles, potatoe salad like items, buns, criossants, breads, and all you can drink juices. Julian—one of jens' friends i met while in germany last year met us at the breakfast place and to tour us around tokyo. poor luis had to haul his bags with him as he was flying out of narita that night.
first we road the asakusa line from one end to the other which took about forty minutes. we got off and then went to a temple area. there were shops all over like an open air market. none of us bought anything—but i may have to get personalized expensive chopsticks. then we threw a 5 yen piece and wished for luck, and luis drew his fortune. this was all at the asakusajinja shrine. we then headed towards the technology area. complete with 100 people playing their nintendo DS's versus one another. 7 flights of technology/electronics were inside the store. each vendor has their own little stand in each specialized electronics area.
we then headed towards the ueno onshi park. we walked to the toshogu shrine and grabbed a starbucks. grande non-fat chai tea latte only 460 yen. (dont ask me the exchange rate—i have NO idea). then we saw luis off to his train towards narita airport and we—mom julian and andrea continued walking around the park before heading to shibuya where we shopped the shitake street filled with shops and stopped for okinawa food. then we met up with some of julians friends from work for a birthday. we went into this restaurant where we were given a back room where you had to take your shoes off to enter, sat and had unlimited drinks and food. we chatted with some japanese dudes—a couple of which did not know english. except for a few words. then at nine fifteen had julian walk us back to the station where we had to change trains successfully once before getting to our hotel. where we both passed out for the night.

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