Tokyo: Shopping
Keeping with the rapid fire blog posts, here's another bulleted list of what we've been up to in no particular order:
- We headed north to Asakusa to buy some rubber food. I found some sushi! I also bought a takoyaki iron and the accompanying implements. I'll be using it for many future potlucks.
- We dropped by the Higashi-Honganji Temple on the way. It was full of tourists but still interesting. The lighting was bad for photos.
- We had a quick lunch at a 'Swiss' bakery / cafe. We had a bacon bread stick, a tonkatsu sandwich, and a crazy mushroom pizza / taco.
- We strolled Ueno park. There was a skilled one man band street performer. I recorded him, but he left before I managed to throw him some change. Oh well.
- I found my first beer vending machine, but it was still early so I didn't buy any.
- We found some capsule toy machines and shopped around the 6 story toy / model / trinket store behind them. We bought much useless crap.
- We finally found the most efficient route to the subway station from our home base.
Now it's almost dusk so we're looking for a tall building to take some photos from. Tokyo tower is tall, but we're hoping to find something with a better view.