Day 3 - Walking around all day

In the morning, we walked over to the Andersen Bakery at the Tokyu Department Store near the Shibuya Station and I bought some kind of orange flavored pastry for breakfast. Then we didn’t waste any time and headed to the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line to get from the Shibuya Station to the Asakusa Station where the Senso-ji Temple was. It was a Saturday and the place was crowded with tourists as well as locals.
You enter the temple area through Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate).

Once you’re in, leading to the the entrance of the temple is this street Nakamise which is full of gift, souvenir and food shops. Once you enter the main temple area, there were crowds of people trying to get in to give their prayers. There wasn’t much to do there though, but as a tourist, one must go there at least once. After we exited the temple area, we wandered around the shops in the area and when it was time for lunch, we tried out this Japanese restaurant on the main strip. Just like many other Japanese restaurants, they had all these nice plastic food displays in the front. We had:
Ramen
Pork Cutlet & Egg Over Rice
Bento Box After lunch, we took the Ginza Line back towards Shibuya but we got off at the Ueno Station and then transferred onto the Hibiya Line and then got off at the Akihabara Station where the Electronic Street was. First went to the huge 7 story electronic store Softmap. As usual, there were lots of new cell phones, TVs, and I even had a chance to check out the new WiiFit which is not yet available in the US. After wandering on the streets a little more, got back onto the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line and headed to Ginza. We got off at the Hibiya Station which was connected directly to The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel were we were going to have afternoon tea. Just like the last time I was here we ordered:
Café Latte
Peninsula Breakfast Tea
Iced Lemon Tea
Page Boy Hat Chocolate Cake with 3 kinds of condiments
2 of The Peninsula Classic Afternoon Tea which consisted of sandwiches, deserts and scones.
After we were done, we circled around the outside of the hotel. I was surprised to find Freshness Burger – a Japanese burger chain – to occupy an entire building across the street. Then we walked down to the main shopping strip of Ginza and visited the Sony building there. Just like last time, most of the items displayed are things that are readily available and there wasn’t anything new. They did have one of Sony’s new phones in Japan that had a 5 megapixel camera. But my phone has one also. Then we went across the street to the Nissan showroom. Instead of the new Infiniti G37, they had the new GT-R on display. You can touch it and even sit in it as much as you want. Oh, and btw I saw one on the street speeding by the day before. Finally we walked over to the Burberry Store which carried all the lines including Burberry London, Burberry Black Label & Burberry Blue Label.
I was very sleepy afterwards, so we took the train back and stopped by the supermarket of the Tokyu Department Store to pick up some sushi to bring back to eat.

Day 2 - wandering around...

I woke up very early because I had a pretty bad case of jetlag. After packing up some stuff, I went to walk around Shibuya while I was waiting for my parents to arrive. It was lunch time and I didn’t have breakfast, so after circling around, I landed at this Japanese ramen place which looked interesting. The place didn’t have a menu, and your only choice was either regular or large ramen. I went for the regular one and it was served pretty quickly. Everyone ate pretty quick there and seemed like they were in a hurry to head back to work.
Afterwards, I walked around a bit more, went to the Bathing Ape store, a book store, etc. Then I went back to the hotel and waited for my parents to arrive. They checked in and then we went out to grab something to eat.
We went to a restaurant at the Seibu Department Store and had:
Coffee
Iced Lemon Tea
Hot Tea
Pork Curry
Beef Stew
Beef Curry
And after eating we went to Gap and Uniqlo, and then we spent 3 hours at Tokyu Hands, an store that has EVERYTHING. I was very tired afterwards, so we headed back at about 9 when the store closed and bought some takeout back with us. I was too tired to eat though.

BACK to TOKYO! - Day 1

I arrived at the airport about 20 minutes before the flight boarded. The flight was full and Tokyo was just a mid-transfer point as the final destination for the plane was Bangkok. Anyways the plane was a lot nicer than I expected. It seemed like it was pretty new, unlike the last time I flew on United.
There was enough leg room for me (of course LOL) and everyone had their own entertainment system just like that of Singapore Airlines. The food was also surprisingly not bad at all. I watched August Rush and then tried to sleep.
Unfortunately because my shoulder muscles were tired, I wasn’t able to sleep too well. Plus it was only like 5pm in the afternoon SF time…
I then proceeded to watch a movie on my laptop, then organized the music on it, and then tried again to go to sleep. Eventually I found different ways of burning time.
The landing was smooth and I finally arrived safely. I proceeded smoothly through immigration and customs. Then I went to take the “Airport Limousine Bus” to the hotel.
My friend met me there and we went to a Japanese restaurant nearby.
We ordered:
Grapefruit Sour
Hotate – grilled scallop on the dried sea-weed
Anago – grilled sea eel
Kinoko Mix – mixed grilled mushrooms
Sirloin Steak – Japanese Premium Beef
They were ALL SOOOO GOOOODDD!!!!!!!
Then I’m back and going to bed right away…. Been up over 20 hours straight!