6th day in Japan - Tokyo

We took a domestic flight back to Tokyo. Tokyo is a busy city with many highways that simply just built over many streets. It was amazing how the engineers can do this in such a crowded city. Some of the buildings were a few inches from the highway road. To me, Tokyo wasn't a very beautiful city. The buildings were dull and the city landscape was not as pretty as ours. No wonder we are called the "Garden City". I began to appreciate Singapore in terms of the Government's continuous efforts to beautify our city. Nonetheless, Tokyo is still quite an interesting city to explore.































Today we visited:

1. Asakusa Kannon Temple
1a. Nakamise Shopping Street
2. Shinjuku
3. Ginza

1. Asakusa Kannon Temple / Nakamise Shopping Street

This is quite a popular temple which tourists would visit when they visited Tokyo. We had a good lunch nearby and proceeded to visit this temple which has a history of more than 1300 years.

Before reaching the temple, we have to go through the Nakamise Shopping street. This street is famous for their rice crackers and I did not know why we did not even bought one packet back ??

Upon reaching the Temple, Tan Shan (Tokyo Tour Guide) told us several observations before entering the temple.

First of all, there is a clean pool and we were supposed to use the metal scope provide to scope water to wash our hands. Afterwhich, we should use the metal scope to scope water to wash our mouth. These 2 procedures is to ensure that we were "cleansed" before entering a sacred place.

Secondly, you can enter the temple. You can have the choice to "draw" lots to see if you are having good or bad luck. CK wanted to try out and got a good luck lots. For people who drew a bad luck lot, they can tied the charm onto the poles provided. If you got a good luck lot, then you can bring it back.

















































































































































































2. Shinjuku
Next we went to a red-light district called Shinjuku. It was a rather complex place crowded with many youngsters and neon lights board. After walking around for sometime, we got tired and just settled down at Starbucks for a cuppa.







































3. Ginza
The next stop is at Ginza which have rows of shops that sells branded stuff. The tour guide told us that the Burberry Blue Label was the only thing that were worth buying as other branded stuff were more expensive than in Singapore. Before coming to Japan, have heard from friends about Burberry, therefore could not resists but bought 2. My mother also bought 1 for her own. In total, we bought 6 but 3 were bought on behalf of friends. Hubby, thanks for one of the Burberry bags.

After leaving Ginza, we simply went back hotel to re-packed everything as tomorrow we would be departing Narita.