To balance the shopping madness of the last few days, we decided to try and find a bit of culture and visit some more shrines and mostly found more shops.
Visited the Tenno-ji temple in Yanaka to see the big buddha, then on to Ueno to the Shitamachi Museum where a nice lady showed us round a recreation of Japanese houses from the Edo period and then gave us presents for looking interested.
Next we travelled on the underground to Asakusa Kannon temple, a massively popular and just generally massive temple surrounded by loads of temple related tat.
2 comments:
That morning sounds like the jaws of hell and i can only suggest you wrestle the trousers back. Pronto!
Stick to the plastic you guys! Too much of this Niponese highbrow stuff will only make it harder to settle back in the cultural wasteland that is Hull.
Eat snacks like KitKat Melting Pleasures Green Tea: it can only make you hungry for Seabrook's finest and Yorkshire curd tarts.
Big Buddhas be blowed!
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