Trip to Asakusa

Today we met up with Kaori, one of our friends here, and went to Asakusa. Today is the first day of Golden Week, so there are lots of festivals going on. Upon arrival, we went for lunch at a famous Udon/Soba place. I had a shrimp-noodle soba, and Toby had soba in yam dipping sauce. Very yummy! :D

After that, we went to the famous temples there, which are dedicated to Konnan, a Buddhist deity. Pictures will be posted a little later on. There were also some delicious sweet potato Youkan (cakes) and of course we had to have some Baskin Robbins ice cream for dessert. ;)



After seeing the sights in Asakusa, we took a boat trip down to Tokyo harbour. Pretty kewl - we saw the Rainbow Bridge from the water and took the monorail train into Odaiba.



Odaiba is awesome! It's like a big conglomeration of weird architecture, archades, shopping malls, and theme parks. We checked out the Fuji building, and finished up with some Thai food overlooking the harbour. A very full day.