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Another day in Tokyo
Another day has passed with us roaming around Tokyo... Sadly, just one full day (plus one morning) left of our Japan stay!
We met up with Hiro - Maria's pen friend - at Tsukuji Fish Market in the wee hours of the morning. A sizeable portion of all the seafood sold in Japan passes by this place, so as you can imagine... It was fairly busy!
It's probably the most dangerous place I've ever been in my life! (And I've been to Mexico City!) With motorized fish trolleys zipping through the really narrow walkways at breakneck speed carrying fresh tuna worth tens of thousands of dollars; hundreds and hundreds of people running around in all directions pulling carts with more fish; frozen nitrogen blocks dabbed on top of stacks of even more seafood; and tourists and buyers sliding around on the wet, slimey, fish-bloody floor... Yea, definitely interesting! :o)
After surviving about two hours in the fish market, we decided not to push our luck any further. We headed over to Tokyo University for a quick walk around campus there, and then continued on to BIC Camera to replace my camera lens. (The original one had a nervous breakdown after attending a wedding one day and a six-hour bus tour of most of Kyoto's temples the next.)
A lens and an iPod later, we headed off to the World Trade Centre Building for some bird's-eye views of Tokyo.
Having confirmed my new lens worked fine, we turned our attention to Shibuya for a walk through the deli section of Tokyu department store, and ended up having shabu shabu at an obscure but really great little restaurant somewhere about 20 meters below street level.
We wrapped the evening up with a visit to a manga store and some guitar playing in our hotel room!
Japan rocks! :D
(Oh dear... I'm starting to sound like Maria now!) 
Posted by Marius Berg Askildsen
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