Today I got up at 4.30am to go to the large fish market at Tsukiji. We wandered around the hectic market looking at stalls with all sorts of weird and wonderful wriggling seafood and vegetables as men on little motorised trolleys whizzed around picking up shopping lists for restaurants. Then we went for the freshest sushi in the world. I had squid, sea urchin, octopus and some other things (!). The sashimi was the best part and the tuna was divine. The top picture is of the queue outside the small sushi restaurant.
Then we wandered across downtown Tokyo and to the Imperial Palace. The second photo is me posing here. After that we went to Asakusa (asak-sa) to the west of Tokyo where there is a temple and some shrines. This was EXTREMELY busy. It was bright and colourful and there were many shops selling souvenirs and sweets. The gate has a huge red lantern which you can see in the picture. In the temple itself I threw a 10 Yen piece over the head of the crowd into a big tub to bring luck in our experiments. Then we went home just as the midday sun was up. From 5pm I slept for 12 hours and then had an early 6am breakfast at Denny's. £2.40 for eggs, bacon, sausage, lettuce and dressing (!) with two slices of extra thick toast with cream butter and strawberry jam and free coffee refills. Yum.
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