Tokyo, Take 2

Well I made it back to Tokyo for my winter holidays. I spent about 8 days down in Saitama, and travelled to Tokyo quite a bit. This is the first of my trips...I think. It has been about 3 weeks since I got back but I don't have a lot of time between work and snowboarding.  I even forgot to put out my plastic(PET) bottles this week, that means 2 more weeks of sitting in my apartment entrance.

Back to the trip. This first set of pictures  is from our trip to Asakusa. It is a wonderful area of Tokyo that lacks Japanese people. Actually, that's not exactly true, but there might be more foreigners than Japanese. There are so many shops with Japanese ornaments and dolls and such that it feels like the entrance to Disneyland. As we made our way closer to the temple I participated in putting smoke over my head and body and washing my hands in a public fountain. The temple was beautiful and the experience would have been more exciting on the 1st or 2nd of January. This is one of those places that you should visit if you are a tourist in Japan. If you come, look out for the giant poop on the Asahi building as you ride the train. Thanks to Kevin I got to see it. However, we actually took the wrong train, so I had to see it on our drive home from Roppongi a few days later. I think it's supposed to be foam from a beer, but everyone seems to recognize it as poop.