Tourists in Tokyo

During the first week in Tokyo we have done loads of sightseeing. We visited 9-floor department stores with loud music and screaming sales staff and loads of high tech gadgets.

We walked through the city, watched people - it is amazing what people wear here!! We checked out the metro system, got lost, but have always found our way back :-)

We slowly started eating some Japanese food, but stick to french bread for breakfast!

We went to all the 'must see' sights, such as Shinjuku. A famous area in Tokyo.

We visited shrines and temples and learned a bit more about Shinto and Buddhism.

Also history is a theme here in Tokyo, we visited the EDO museum, a very impressive museum about the EDO era (1600-1868).

The Tokyo tower was one of those 'must see' places we have seen, but just to tick them off our list. As Robin would say, let's not go, I am not a tourist.

The fishmarket we haven't seen yet, getting up at 4 a.m. is not so much to our liking. But we visited the Panasonic building, a great place to find out what the latest is on high tech inventions.

Some inventions were really cool and really useful, others were in our eyes totally useless. Big emphasis is on ecological solutions. A lot of fun was the 3rd floor, a kind of science center, hand on stuff with good explanations. Definitely worth the visit.

As the hostel was really 'a pain' we almost immediately tried to find a couchsurfing address, for 3 people and with the size of the apartments people have in the city, our chances were small. Still, we were extremely lucky that a nice lady from the Philipines was ready to invite us.

Cy, thanks so much for the great time we had at your place!! You are wonderful.

We stayed 5 days, met loads of people - as Cyril's place looks like a hostel and many other couchsurfers came and went during our stay. We will go back the end of September.

Time came to move on and we took a bus to the country side. More about that later.