The next morning after a brief stop to get breakfast at a local bakery near the east entrance to the Komagome station, I made my way to Asakusa to visit the Senso-ji Temple. From the Komagome station I had to take the subway to Ueno and transfer to another subway to get to the Asakusa station. There’s no direct line there.

I’m super glad that I got there pretty early. Well, 10-ish early. It wasn’t too crowded yet and I was able to get some pretty pictures of the temple and of the Five-Storied Pagoda. The area is beautiful with tons of statues and pretty building to visit and wander about.

I was even able to get a fortune. Slide in 100 yen in the coin collector, shake the bin and pull out one of the sticks. Then match the stick number (kanji characters) to the characters on the drawers and pull out you fortune sheet.

Wonderfully mine was a good fortune!

However I know that if it was a bad one, all you have to do is fold it and tie it on the shire racks to have better fortune to be passed to you.

My only regret was not buying souvenirs there. Japan is really expensive (compared to living in Korea), so I was hoping to get a better deal of souvenirs somewhere else, but I couldn’t find what I wanted like plates and such. Now I know.

Afterwards I met up with a fellow EPIK teacher who was also vacationing in Japan. She was there longer as she took two weeks vacation, but she also started back to school two weeks before I do. So instead of wandering Ueno like I originally planned, I went with her to check out Odaiba. There we wandered the DECKS mall and checker out the Odaiba Ferris Wheel.

There was two things we really wanted to do, but as the trains stop running around midnight, we needed to make sure we could make it back to our respected AirBNBs. It was a choice between teamLABs exhibit or Tokyo Joypolis. And we went with JOypolis since it had tons of rides and we could do it right away rather than wait for the night entrance to teamLABs. It was fun and there was lots of rights for such of space inside a mall.

It was interesting and hopefully the next time I go to Tokyo, I can see the exhibit. Next post, my 3rd and final full day in Tokyo: Ikebukuro & Akihabara.

안녕 – jane