Tokyo
Trip Start
Apr 02, 2008
1
43
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Trip End
Ongoing
Tokyo,
Kanto,
Japan
Sunday, September 7, 2008
We met up with Saemi (Aoife, Ailbhe's sister's friend) and her boyfriend Andy. Had food and tagged along to a birthday party of a friend of theirs. Was nice to meet the locals and a good introduction to the city.
Tokyo is about neigbourhoods, we visited a number of them in the brief, two and a half days. We needed to leave Tokyo or Kyoto before our rail pass expired. Still, we managed.
Asakusa was our neigbourhood for two nights. The area is nice and where our hostel the Annex was located was dead
Senso-ji
. You could J-walk across the road and no one would look at you funny (probably because there was no-one around). The main attraction in the area was the Temple, Senso-ji, in the same area is a five-storey pogoda, the second tallest in Japan. Here is a brief low down of the other neigbourhoods:
Shibuya - famous for the pedestrian crossing where every few minutues people cross the road like ants. Good for shopping and people watching. You see all sorts.
Shinjuku - Also good for shopping and people watching.
Ueno - lovely park and a pond with loads and loads lillies..which weren't in bloom..so Ailbhe comapred it a field to cabbages.
Harajuku - area now famed for teenage girls dressing in flamboyant and outragesously clad outfits. A must!
To sum it up...Tokyo is class.
