We are Officially Bad at Planning

Hello,

Well, it's been a couple of days since a regular post, so we have had time to do something. Anyhow, yesterday we were planning on going to Tsukiji Fish Market (the biggest in the world), and to see the good stuff you have to be there really early, preferably 5am. So we set my cellphone to alarm at 6 am (we didn't want to get up too early), but apparently, my cellphone died. So; at 1 pm, we wake up. And we went to sleep at midnight the night before! Another 13 hours of sleep. Really odd. So we didn't get to go to the fish market.

That's why we decided to go today. So this morning, we set the alarms at 5:30am, and get up at that time, only to realise the market's closed on sundays. Yippie-kay-yay. And to add to the pain; we only got 4 hours of sleep (well, Jonas did, I couldn't fall asleep at all).

Well, yesterday didn't totally go to waste, we went to Harajuku and Shibuya, the two, perhaps, most famous places in Tokyo. Shibuya is famous for it's grand crossing and huge TV-monitors above, which appears in every Tokyo-movie worth its salt (for example, Lost in Translation). And Harajuku is famous for it's messed up kids, whose way to dress is a strong influence on the fashionistas of the world. Madonna names them in one of her songs by the way.

Well, Harajuku is also famous because it houses the biggest temple in Tokyo: Meiji-jingu. It's located in a 55 hectares-park in central tokyo, and it's really big. We snapped some photos, but by the time we got there the temple had somewhat closed. Yay. We might go there again today, as it only costs 230 Yen to travel across Tokyo (something like 1,6 euros).

Well, this post is starting to be long, but this is one of the few moments where we're not in such a hurry, since we got up so early. But, I'll sum it up; the days before yesterday we visited Senso-ji, another big temple here in Asakusa where we live, and we went about exploring Asakusa. We bought some fine sushi for 2300 Yen (15 euros), which I'll add a picture of, among a lot of pictures I'm about to upload. Hope you'll like them!

These two girls were in shop next to this cool motorcykle, and when I went to take a photo of it, they wanted to be in it, so here they are.

These giant hamster-thing were the focus of our attention for a couple of minutes when we desperately tried to haul them, only to have lost a couple of hundred Yens later.

Jonas next to a famous Kabuki-actor.

Some statues in the Senso-ji gardens.

Senso-ji main temple.

This is Hideo, a very nice guy who started talking to me as I watched the many giant Koi in the ponds of Senso-ji. He gave us some tips of what to do in Tokyo, the main attractions and so on. Very nice.

This is the five-storied Pagoda in Senso-ji.

The many-many small stands in the Senso-ji temple area.

The sushi we ordered. Almost all of it was good, except the weird yellow one. It tasted like mud.

This is the Torii to the Meiji-jingu. Grand, made of cypress. Would be nice to have in your driveway.

This is one of the many bonzai-trees inside Meiji-jingu.

A few of the famous Harajuku-kids.This picture is mainly for my nerdy friends (you know who you are). It's a huge poster for MGS4 which is to be released soon. They played trailers for it on the big screen too.

The last picture. This guy was in the subway with a huge camera and when I turned my head to look at him he had it pointed right at med, and just when I turned my head he snapped a photo. don't think it was intentional to do it right then, but still. So I took out my camera, whistled at him, and when he looked, I snapped this picture as revenge. He, and maybe 3-4 more people on the other side laughed. Very amusing.

Well, that's it for now, hope you liked it!