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| Hotel Villa Fontaine |
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| Breakfast before we leave |
Going to visit Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa. So we have a nice breakfast at the hotel and head our way to JR Shinbashi Station to take the Ginza line, we are met by businesmen (men in black) hurrying up to go to work, since our hotel is based on the business district of Shiodome.
So, from Ginza Line we need to disembarked at Asakusa Station. As we emerrged at the exit you will see the Asahi Headquarter Building, just across the Sumida River.
Asakusa
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| Asakusa Area |
A few blocks away is the entrance to the Grand Kaminarimon Gate and straight ahead is the Nakamise-dori , lined with about 90 souvenir stores dating from the Edo Period. Souvenirs!!!
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| Grand Kaminarimon Gate |
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| say "Cheese" nope say "PEACE!" |
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| Nakamise-dori Shops |
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| Nakamise Shopping Street |
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| Asakusa (cherry blossom) |
Senso-ji Temple
Senso-ji Temple is the oldest temple in Tokyo, that is said to be built in 628, the Grand Kaminarimon has a huge red lantern and has a two evil looking protector (the thunder god and the rain god) as a landmark.
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| Five Stories Pagoda, Senso-ji Temple |
Here, where you can find a counter, The Querents shake labelled sticks from enclosed metal containers and read the corresponding answers they retrieve from one of 100 possible drawers. This is goin to be your fortune!!!........translation is available in the nearby counter.
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| Senso-ji Temple |
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| Asakusajinja Shrine |
Akihabara
Now, on are way to Akihabara, the electronic town. If you are a techy or a gadget person or even an anime lover and manga geek this the place for you, but our objective today is to look for our favorite 70's popular robots.
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| Akihabara Area |
Maid cafés (メイドカフェ Meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses dressed in maid costumes act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons.Maid cafés were originally designed primarily to cater to the fantasies of male otaku, obsessive fans of anime, manga and video games. The first permanent maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara.
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| Maid Cafe |
One common rule in a maid café is that photographs of maids or the café interior are forbidden. However, customers usually have the option of paying an extra fee in order to get his or her photograph taken with a maid. The maid will then hand-decorate the photograph for the customer.
Meidos Girls or Maid Cafe Girls were in every corner streets of Akihabara...
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| meidos girls |
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| toys, mangas and everything in between |
As we head back to the hotel to take some rest.. Our feet were killing us, for those long walk for the past 3 days...
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| back at the hotel (a hour and half rest) |
After a decent rest, next stop, Shunjuku!!!
Shinjuku
Shinjuku is one of the 23 city wards of Tokyo, but the name commonly refers to just the large entertainment, business and shopping area around station
Shinjuku Station is the world's busiest railway station, handling more than two million passengers every day. It is served by about a dozen railway and subway lines, including the JR Yamanote Line.Shinjuku is also one of Tokyo's major stops for long-distance highway buses and city buses.
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| Shinjuku Area |
At around 4pm we crossed the Koshu-kaido and went to Takashimaya Times Square Department Store, where there's a link brigde to Kinokuniya Flagship store is, about 5 minutes walk from the south exit of Shinjuku Station. Shijunku station has like 20 exits, so it’s actually closer to the “New South Exit” (you can see it on the map)
As we are enjoying the 6th floor bookstore.
And suddenly, at around 5:30pm, all the buildings in Tokyo started to
sway again after a massive aftershock with a magnitude of 6.9 hits ...
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| just right after the 6.9 aftershock |
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| we took a cab goin back to the hotel |
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| dinner time! |
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| courtesy of BBC World News |
The 6.9 aftershock was on the news that evening, and the commemoration of the march 11 has been observed that day. We felt another aftershock before we sleep.....
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