-We headed out by 6:30 AM in order to head over to see the excitement of the Tsukiji Metropolitan Wholesale Market. This is the famous fish market of Tokyo. There are about a million people running around, driving small transport trucks, riding scooters, using power saws to slice frozen fish, and selling everything from squid tentacles to fish heads. After walking through the vegetable market, we headed to Jonathan's Coffeehouse to try 6 different types of tea, including roasted soybean tea.
-The next stop waas the Tokyo Tower, for a bird's eye view of Tokyo. This is where we got our first view of Mt. Fuji. SpongeBob especially enjoyed the view from the "Look Down" window, which is a glass floor 500 feet above the ground.
-After two unsuccessful attempts to find a vegetarian restaurant and a few subway rides, we had lunch in the Omote-Sando district. After lunch, we went to the Meiji-jingu Shrine, built in honor of the 19th Century Emperor Meiji. This shrine is part of the beautiful Yoyogi Park, where you wouldn't even know you were in a sprawling city like Tokyo. Nearby, we staopped at Snoopy Town in the Harajuku District. Exhausted, we headed back to the ryokan and crashed.
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