Day 3 ：Tokyo

We began the day by introducing Owen to the joys of the Japanese convenience store - with their pre-packaged sandwiches, hot dogs and pastries. The standard place for breakfast for us travellers to Japan.

We were disappointed with the lack of choc-coated-bananas-on-sticks at the Sensoji Temple, but highly excited about the machines which were making Manjuu in front of our eyes. So excited that Owen purchased a few without being quite sure what they were.

From the temple we jumped on the subway to head to the good part of Tokyo... the part where Kiddy Land is :)
We spent a solid 2 hours investigating all 6 floors of Good Times it had to offer, and Xavier came out with about 10 quality items. We had crepes (or waffles, if you're Kate), as promised - but only one each. We had ball-bearing-ice-cream from Kiddy Land for dessert (photo again to come later!).

Then there was the mall next to the waffle/crepe place. Last time I was there, I remember it being a fairly standard sort of mall - perhaps with a few whacky characters inhabiting it (mainly whacky in their choice of outfit) - but this time, it was half-a-dozen floors of chaos! There seemed to be some kind of mall-wide mega-sale. Every shop had at least one loud, crazy, highly excited person outside of it, usually holding some kind of sign, often with a cardboard megaphone. Most shops had more than one of these people. I'm not sure how else to describe it other than "mayhem". See the video at the end of the post (not sure how well it captures what it was truly like, but it's the best we've got!)

After that experience, we headed to the temple at Meiji-Jingu for a stroll through the park - a bit of peace and quiet. And quality shade. We made our way through the gardens using a coin which determined which way to turn at each intersection in the paths. We were highly satified with the coin's decisions, as it took us on a route past all the main sights, and never back past the same place twice. I think the coin has a future career as a tour guide.

I would rate today as another "good times", but now we are sick of walking and riding trains - so just for a change, we get 14 hours on aircraft tomorrow. Yeah. Woo.