Japan 2019

Had a great breakfast and ate almost everything in this picture besides the frankfurter looking “sausages”. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten fried chicken and noodles for breakfast before! But it was great! Then it was on to the Asakusa Kannon Temple, where we got a great view of the Tokyo Skytree!

Asakusa Kannon Temple was beautiful and we got to purify ourselves with smoke and water. Alex and I spent a good amount of time walking around and seeing so many interesting shrines. What a great way to start our trip!

Our next stop was the Meiji Jingu Shinto Shrine, which was in the middle of a gorgeous and shaded forest (which Alex appreciated because it was really humid). Apparently the crows are dangerous here…really trying to not throw in a Game of Thrones reference here…the panoramic picture is a collection of various barrels of sake offered to the shrine yearly!

For lunch we had some great sushi in Harajuku where we also spent a lot of time in a cool toy store that had many pop toys including Star Wars Samurai figures!

Ended our amazing day with a trip to an observation deck on the 45th floor of a Shinjuku skyscraper. It was pretty hazy, but you could still see all of Tokyo (just not Mt. Fuji). We had a Sumo style pot dinner which was yummy (at least I liked it…Alex not so much)