Saturday, December 29, 2012

We spent Thursday tooling around Ginza.  The Swarovski store has a BEAUTIFUL storefront.  Our spending was relatively in control!  I picked up an adorable stuffed animal, a bento box, and some stationary (not much, really!).  We had dinner at Yabaton, a tonkatsu restaurant that specializes in miso-katsu.  OM NOM NOM. 

Friday, we got up at 5 am.  I tooled around the hotel room while Christopher checked out Tsukiji, the world's largest fish market.  He had the best sushi of his life at Daiwa Sushi before heading back to the hotel...  where he took a nap!  >_< 

After Christopher's nap, we headed up to Sensoji, the large Buddhist temple in Asakusa, which was packed.  We ate fresh dango and drank some sort of hot drink at the dango stand.  No idea what it was, but it was tasty.  I managed to find ice cream at one of the shops - chocolate and soybean twist.  It was super tasty!  We got separated for a bit going down Nakamise-dori, but eventually found each other.  After visiting Sensoji, we walked east to the Sumida river and wandered up the bank to the Tokyo boat cruise dock.

We boarded a boat for Odaiba and spent an hour meandering down the Sumida river to the bay and Odaiba.  We had pizza and pasta for dinner at Odaiba, gawked at overpriced movie tickets, had the best Burger King I've ever had (seriously), cooed at the dogs for sale at the mall (almost all of which cost at least two THOUSAND dollars), and then boarded a floating bar (http://jicoofloatingbar.com/main.html) for a 2.5 hour cruise around the bay.  It was awesome!  Live music, city lights, going under the rainbow bridge all lit up, good drinks... 

A magical night for sure.

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