Tokyo Day 6

 

 

@ Tsukiji Market

 

 @ Imperial Palace

@ Akihabara

 

@ Asakusa

 

 

@ Ueno

  

@ Hachiko Statue

Day 6 – 15^th Nov (Wed)

• Tsukiji Fish Market – Or a 10 minute walk by using the Tsukiji Subway station (H10) on the Hibiya line, use exit 1. The largest fish market in the world. You need wake up like 4.00 am early in the morning to get enough time to reach Tsukiji Seafood Wholesale Market to watch the biggest tuna fish auction scene in the world which start around 5.00-5.30 am. Take your very fresh sasashi and sushi as your breakfast.
• Ginza – Shopping district & biggest financial district in Tokyo Japan. Walk from Tsukiji Fish Market. The key highlights of Ginza are all the buildings and shops along the two main intersecting streets, Chuo-dori and Harumi-dori. To walk the main parts of these streets would require around 60 to 90 minutes on foot. Go to Harumi Dori (Street).
• Imperial Palace & its East Gardens
• Akihabara - There are two key aspects to Akihabara; high technology shopping and maid cafe (also called maido cafe), electronic shops.
• Asakusa – experience the heritage of culture side of Japan, pray in the most famous Sensoji Temple  and do shopping in buying Japan local souvenirs like biscuits, cakes, handy crafts, porcelains goods, decors, cloths, swords, many stuff can get here. Exit A4 Asakusa Station, turn right. Turn left at the first corner and walk one block. You will see a large red wooden gate (Kaminari-mon gate) on the other side of the street. Cross the street and go through the gate. You will get to a market street with souvenir shops on both sides – this is called Nakamise-dori. Walk straight down the market street and through another wooden gate and you will reach Sensoji temple, the most famous location in Asakusa. 
• Ueno Park – Ueno Ameyoko street, here is the most complete souvenirs street in Tokyo with very reasonable pricing, you can almost everything that is famous for souvenir around Japan here.  
• Shibuya – look up for Shibuya crossing. The Hachikō Exit (ハチ公口 Hachikō-guchi) on the west side, named for the nearby statue of the dog Hachikō and adjacent to Shibuya's famous scramble crossing, is a particularly popular meeting spot. 

Day 6 was the last day we spent at Tokyo before leaving at 11.45pm. We started with Tsukiji market where we witnessed many fresh seafood on sale. We were given some sampling too and Emeryn hearts the anchovies a lot. After a quick walk at Tsukiji, we headed to Ginza where we surrounded with huge and tall financial building. We had a pit stop at one of the famous tempura served outlet. Next was Imprerial Palace and its East Gardens. We did not managed to cover all the area as it was a real huge garden. We dropped by and snapped some photo before leaving. Yes, been there!!!

We visited Akihabara and even tempted to try out the maid cafe. To our disappointment, it was more like a cyber cafe where people hang out for common drinks and perhaps some board games. Maids are seen lingering on the street but very limited of them in their outlets. We left even without ordering a drink. We shopped for last minutes souvenirs at Asakusa and the day was getting dark at only 4.30pm. We then visited Ueno where we had a stroll at Ueno Ameyoko Street. Mummy bought nothing but some Hello Kitty merchandize. The fashion now is all about winter, thus its not something for Asean like us.

We were happy for being able to cover almost all places in our itinerary. After our dinner at Ueno, we rushed to Shibuya just to snapped a photo at the Hachiko statue after telling Emeryn the story behind Hachiko. We then head over to the airport. Mummy was having some problem with the hand luggage which they claimed is out of hand carry size. Mummy has no choice but to checked in the luggage after failed to convince them. The flight took off on time and Emeryn dozed off almost immediately after boarding until we touched down at 6am. 

We spent about 2 hours or so at LCCT before transiting back to Penang. Daddy picked us from airport.