Tokyo again

Yep, John is holding a bottle of "milk tea". It came from one of the many many vending machines. I had a taste, and it is very sugary, but he seemed happy enough. Oh and it comes out of the vending machine warm- " truly this is a culture far superior to our own. For not only do they have heated drinks from a vending machine, but tea with sugar and milk ready to drink on every corner".

We went into Tokyo again today. We went to see the Sensoji temple-Buddhist, which was pretty cool. It's really big and there were loads of people there. We had to walk down some small streets to get there, and there was a real local feel about the area. There were loads of small shrines all around the area too, and a Koi pond. 

One of the subway signs telling people not to use their phones. There are many different information signs, and quite a few of them are animated. There is a strange one with a panda looking very cross, because he rushed and the door closed on his foot. There are actually signs telling people not to rush. 

We also went to the Tokyo Edo museum. Edo is the old name for Tokyo, and the museum is dedicated to showing the way of life of this era. Most of the information was in Japanese though. This is right beside the Sumo wrestling stadium. We had to walk by here to get back to the Metro. There were loads of people queued up outside, waiting for tickets we assumed. So we just walked right passed them. I got a bit of a surprise when they started clapping and cheering at us. Turns out that there was a sumo wrestler walking right behind us. (Famous too I imagine from the cheers.)

The Tokyo Tower. 

In the afternoon we went to the Tokyo Tower. This is a TV broadcasting tower, with an observatory. We were there in time for sunset, and we got some amazing views over Tokyo. I think might have driven John a little mad trying to get as many photos as I could. There was a video that was played repeatedly - just a few pictures and some caption. One of which was "the tower makes you happy" 

After a few days of searching I have finally found some of the famed odd kit kat flavours. There is supposedly 80 different flavours available, but all we have seen so far is regular dark and milk. Found a cheese one today and this wasabi one.

We have discovered that many many ATM's here don't accept our cards. Never mind not accepting them, they don't even read them. We just stick them in the machine and absolutely nothing happens! However, when we did find one that will give us money, I was quite relieved. Even better, when it does give us the cash it makes a noise like we have won a prize!