ANA Intercontinental Tokyo Minato

... 3 estrellas michelin, la Ruscalleda... como humildes pero orgullosos representantes!!! Tokio resulta una ciudad abrumadora, por su concentracion, por su densidad e intensidad. Hay ciudades que se tarda un dia en descubrir. Otras con dos o tres dias es suficiente. Y otras que con seis dias (como es nuestro caso) sirven unicamente para rascar minimamente la superficie. En un dia te das una vuelta por un barrio, o ni tan solo eso. Pero es que hay decenas para ver... Seis dias como ...

... train to Asakusa. We went to this great restaurant and I had Tempura! it was fish and rice with lovely batter all over it. It was my best lunch I had ever tasted. For desert I had some fresh fruit (kiwi fruit, orange and strawberries.) Alison: After eating yummy tempura we then wandered around the temples of Asakusa and then caught the ferry back along the river to Hinode Pier, near our hotel. That evening ...

... to say, we knew the temples were going to be impressive as we passed under the largest lantern i've ever seen suspended from the main archways into the complex (photo op. again obviously!). Even the avenue of opportunisitic stalls glistening in the sun on the run upto the temples was impressive and tempting...Si, not so swayed by all the goodies, kept the pace and the money in my wallet! Then finally nearing the centre an american tourist, who we'd met repeatedly ...

... Once we got to our stop there were 4 exits all numbered we chose the one closest to us and vualah we were back on the surface. It looked pretty cool but very calm compared to what I had seen on TV. A shopkeeper saw us looking in all sorts of directions because I was looking for a river, since to get to this place had turned into pictionary from here because the map we had did not have street names but instead it was just a picture map with a star at where we needed to ...

... though, so I was very confused. And pretty soon the entire house started to rattle and shake a bit. I was quite groggy, like I said, so my first thought was, "Who is shaking the house?" And a vision of some sort of giant creature entered my head, as though that were actually realistic. Then I wondered why the house was shaking, as if our home would have suddenly decided to dance a little jig. And finally the idea occurred to me that this was ...

... arose, we figured, would take a lifetime. What was clear to us was that in Japan everyone and everything had its proper place and proper purpose and that the worst crime that could be committed against this well defined structure was to go too strongly against the grain. Not wanting to go to far beyond the norm ourselves, we opted to spend our last night in the city in a capsule hotel. One of the predictable byproducts of a city that has so many people living so far away from the ...

... in for flavor. I visited the gift shop. Yup, they had almost everything under the sun imprinted with some type of Sanrio Character. In the restaurant, they had box lunches and deserts shaped like Kitty. A stand off to the side was offering Visa and Mastercards with Hello Kitty on them. I could only shake my head and walk away....but not before I bought a dozen cell phone danglers.... ----------------------------- I was kind of ...