[Day 1], [Day 2], [Day 3], [Day 4], [Day 5]

We woke up a little earlier today, around 8 or so. We wanted to go down to the fish market and check out today's catch. We stopped by a grocery store to get a few items to snack on on our way. The fish market is quite big. It is located on the docks. We walked by many boxes of tuna, octopuses, all manner of fish. Just laying there. They have this honesty thing, like most places in Europe. In the US, it would be all gone. Anyway, we walked all around the market. There were lots of vendors just outside the market selling fresh fish products. I bought various things, they were all good. Then we went to have Sushi for lunch at a restaurant right next to the fish market area. Tam is quite proficient in ordering Sushi. It was most excellent. Tam said the amount of food we ate at this restaurant would have cost 2-3 times that in the US. And he said it was some of the best Sushi he had ever eaten. I enjoyed it thoroughly as well. Bridge to Market Side of Tuna Octopus Little Tuna Head Big Tuna Head

From there, we went and checked out some more department stores.  You can check your email in just about any store.  The only trick is finding a keyboard that is setup to use Western characters.  But we made do.  It was humorous trying to IM people and they would just get garble.

For dinner, we thought we would check out this part of Tokyo called Rakuro. The book Tam had called it an area where younger people hang out and party. We thought that would be neat, so we took the subway there. It turned out to be a "red light" district. There were many adult bars there. I was constantly approached by Africans with British accents soliciting me to enter the bar. One guy said, "All you have to do is stick your head in, no commitments". I declined his offer, really, I did. Given my opinion of Japanese women, I wasn't very interested. We didn't think that was a very trendy and fun place. So we went to this other area.

We took the subway here and wandered around. It was packed as usual. There is just an endless stream of Japanese people in Tokyo, always on the move. We bought some Yakitori from a street vendor who spoke English pretty well. It was delicious. We then went to the Kirin beer hall and enjoyed some of their refreshments.  I was so pleased to see beer other than a lager.  I eagerly ordered a dark bock, but was quickly disappointed.  So I stuck to the lager.  Japanese have the lager down, but I suppose that is it. :-( We stayed until closing, which was about 11 and then headed back to the hotel for the evening. The subway was quite full going home.

On to Day 4 of our travels.

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