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Our first stop was the Tokyo Tower. I wasn't too thrilled because I never get too excited about seeing famous landmarks or checking out views. I am more about stumbling upon random places while out walking around. However, the tower completely exceeded my expectations. They had a crazy gift shop so I bought some gifts for my siblings. I am not quite sure what these little Tower Creatures were but they were quite, ah, phallic? After that we went to go get our Mcdonald's on. I really am trying to only eat Japanese food but I felt so protein deficient! I guess my body will have to get used to it but it was really nice to eat a large portion of meat!
We got tickets to head to the top of the tower, but before we got all the way up an interesting incident happened to me. There I was minding my own business, taking some pictures and a group of Japanese people came up to me and starting rapidly shooting questions at me. I thought they were telling me no pictures, but turns out they wanted something completely different! They shoved some questionnaire in my face and I started filling it out. Turns out they wanted to interview me for some sort popular Japanese Consumer magazine. They snapped a bunch of pictures of me and made me take out the souvenir I got for my little sister Olivia! For most of the questions I just kind of answered "I like cats and so does my family". Hope they use my quotes...
Woo hoo I'm gonna be in a magazine! Hope they like my feathers
Looking out over Tokyo while we were on the top of the Tower was unreal. The City doesn't stop. It just kept going and going and going...I stood there completely shocked for a couple moments because in all those crazy buildings there are tons of people stuffed in there! I have been to the top of the space needle, empire state building, and the Eiffel Tower, but Tokyo Tower was easily my favorite.
Obviously stressed out about the amount of people in Tokyo
Next we seemed to wander for hours. We passed many beautiful temples along the way and stopped at quite a few to look around. I love that there are so many peaceful sanctuaries tucked among the huge skyscrapers. I appreciate the juxtaposition My favorite was this epic old samurai temple. I guess they used to ride their horses up these crazy steep stairs. By "they" I mean "Tom Cruise"..unfortunately I have not seen him in his samurai garb around Tokyo yet! I braved these steep stairs that I am sure my mom would have ran up if she were in Tokyo with me! It was tiring but the top was so worth it.
We finally ended up at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. It's huge and beautiful - and it honors over 2,000,000 individuals including horses! It was really interesting but at this point of the day I wasn't really interested in the architecture or all the individual shrines so I didn't take a ton of pictures. Oops. I did find a fun coy pond and discovered that they sell fish food in vending machines (but really, what don't they have in vending machines here?) So I fed the fish! I dunno why but I was pretty enamored with them and could have done it for hours. I also got to take a picture with a Japanese priest right before the Shrine closed. I wanted to sorority pose it with him but I didn't think it would go over too well so I held back. It's weird taking stiff pictures I am used to squatting, arm out head tilted and being in a picture with lots of other people!
Carrot offering at the base of the horse
I liked his choice in footwear
Our final destination was what I have been waiting for since I was eight years old. The Pokemon Center. It was really just a store but it was still awesome! It was like travelling back to my youth, except there were tons of creatures they did not have back in my day. It made me completely miss Taylor and reminded me of us playing pokemon at 14 years old haha! I wish she could have seen it with me but I bought her (and my siblings) some presents from the shop so hopefully that's enough! They played the PokeMart Music the whole time. Unfortunately no one was walking in the same line by the shelves and Professor Oak did not make an appearance.
We dined on some Japanese curry for dinner and man was it spiiicyyyy. For those of you who know me pretty well you know that I can't get enough Jalapenos on my Munchyz hot dog. But this was way intense. They had 1-10 but you were not allowed to have 6 unless if you finished all of 5. I got 4 and did pretty well. Shoji made us try some nasty fermented soybean concoction (Natto) - as you can see from my expressions it wasn't my favorite!
Taking off my clothes it was so hot!
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