Saturday, April 4, 2009

Skyscrapin

A couple of friends and I rode the densha to Shinjuku to check out the skyscraper district. We heard from someone that you can ride up to the observatory of the Tokyo Municipal Building for free.

After almost 50 stories up, we looked out to the city below.

We then realized that this city is huge. Walking around 360 degrees, all we saw were more and more buildings.

Across the street, we found a park where people where having picnics under the blooms. Here's the tower looking back up.

Walked through a small flea market selling the most random stuff.

Met Laurel in Shibuya later on. This guy was chilling under the Hachiko statue the whole time I was there...smiling...for almost an hour....with a bottle of wine.
Harajuku was packed today, so we decided to cut over to yoyogi park and check out Meiji Shrine.

The huge famous tori you see in magazines and books.

Sake Barrels

Lolo chan and I


We saw a traditional wedding procession. Pretty cool. The priests and couple looked so clean and pure.

To end our excursion, Laurel and I decided to go to Kaiten Sushi and eat as many wierd kinds of sushi as we could find.
We started out with the normal hamachi.

Laurel tried a seared mackeral. She said it was really fishy.

The tuna looked really fresh so I had to try it. It was tasty.

And finally, we both tried sea urchin. Like Laurel said, it looked like poop, felt like poop, and tasted like the ocean. yum.

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