Tokyo

Day 12, July 4

More sight seeing in Tokyo today, which means lots of subways and train rides again! Shinjuku Station is apparently the busiest station in the world with over 2 million people going through each day. The stations are like little cities themselves. Tara had found a good breakfast spot at Shinjuku station, but do you think we could find it? After about an hour of trying we gave up and settled for a bakery. Our sightseeing started with fish markets in Tsukiji, then it was off to find “kitchen street”. This is a street full of anything you might need if you owned a restaurant – except for fresh food. Lots of kitchenware shops and the highlight is all the fake plastic food shops. They were quite amazing – from a plastic bottle of Moet in plastic ice to a big fried rice wave in a wok. The fake dishes seemed to range from about $60 to over $100 for a simple dish.

Next it was off to Tokyo Tower, very similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. We then sent Tara off on one train to our hotel room and Gerard and I caught 3 more subway tains to go out to Disneyland to pick up Tess. Tess hadn’t eaten much in her 2 days at Disneyland so was starving when we met her. She had her sights set on a vegan ramen restaurant in Tokyo Station. It was 9pm and the thought of trying to find this at Tokyo Station didn’t thrill me. Amazingly we found it quiet quickly! Happy Tess.