Tokyo - Day 4

We had a fun adventure today. We took the subway all the way across Tokyo to a place called Asakusa. We thought the main attraction was a temple, but when we got out of the train station, all we could see was shopping EVERYwhere!!! It was seriously like Canton in Japan!! We shopped some and finally found the temple after asking for directions. The temple was very interesting…. We had no idea what anyone was doing, but there were all kinds of little rituals going on all around. There was a little area where incense was being burned and people were fanning the smoke onto themselves. It was an interesting and beautiful experience!

After that we got adventurous enough to try some of the food that the vendors around were selling. I got octopus and shrimp Tako Yaki balls which we have enjoyed in Guam before. These were even better, though! Mimi tried some unidentifiable food and enjoyed it and Kelsey had a baked potato! The little girls had some chicken that didn’t look too weird.

We had planned to take a boat tour, but this place was SO huge and overwhelming and I had NO idea how we’d ever find the boat station. So, we shopped some more with the million other people that were there and then made the subway ride back to the hotel without getting lost – yay!

Back at the hotel, we did some laundry and then packed up our suitcases and had 4 of our biggest ones sent over to the hotel where we will be staying tomorrow. We decided after having done the million stairs at the train stations that it would have been next to impossible for all of us and all of our luggage to get from here to the Disney hotel tomorrow!! We will have our first day at Disney Land tomorrow and will enjoy 3 days at the next hotel which is right by the Disney Parks. We’re excited!!