Boat trip up the Sumidagawa river from Hinode Pier to Asakusa
The Asahi beer building also known (by us) as the golden turd building.
Shops lining the entrance to the Asakusa temple. Along here I ate green tea mochi (rice balls) on a stick, and deep fried green tea mochi with sweet adzuki bean paste. Erik bought a stick that was some kind of sesame flavoured fried thing and a sweet hot ginger drink.
Pagoda at Asakusa
Entrance to the temple
Incense bowl outside the temple. People waft the smoke onto the part of their body they want fixed. If you rub it on our head it is thought to help augment your intellligence.
The temple. In front of anything Holy there is a trough into which to throw donations before you have a pray. Similarly you can buy fortunes at a 100yen a time at most of the temples, or pay to light incense or candles.
Artificial cherry blossums outside the temple
Our Tokyo dynamic tour bus
with Andrew and Yumiko, we had a delicious dinner. Yumiko smoked us some small fish on a burner at the table, and we tried fresh sea urchin yum, and had lovely unagi, eel in barbeque sauce.
Some nonsensical Ingrish, I think it was outside a hotel.