Exploring asakusa 🎎 In addition to us almost missing our flight to Tokyo, our luggage DID miss the flight and we found out that our bags would not arrive until the 7th of April (we landed late in the evening on the 5th). So no luggage and a lot of time spent with customs at Haneda Airport. So much time, indeed, that when we were done the last trains had departed and our only options were to try to find a bus that might get us close to our hostel… Or just take the taxi. We chose the latter. Finally! We arrived at our hostel, sweaty, tired and a little frustrated from the many things that had gone wrong and headed straight to bed. And now. Our first day in Japan! We’re staying in Asakusa which is a very hip and youthful part of Tokyo that is also home to the Sensoji-temple and Tokyo Skytree (the tallest tower in thE WORLD!!) So for our first trip out and about in the streets of Tokyo we decided to head to Sensoji-temple! … After buying some shirts that were not sweaty and disgusting So beauty, much wow. The trip to Sensoji went smoother than expected. Apparently we live VERY close by! The temple was beautiful and surrounded by cherry blossoms, but also very much filled with people - locals and tourists alike. Inside the temple you could pray for good fortune or “politely shake” a box with sticks to get your fortune told. Rat was told she had excellent luck where I just found that my fortune was “meh” (medium). From Sensoji-temple we walked down Nakamise street that is filled with booths where you can buy a wide assortment of food or tourist crap. Lovely, lovely tourist crap. Also a very crowded place, but like many places in Tokyo it is made more pretty by the presence of the Cherry blossoms After Sensoji and Nakamise street we decided we would head towards the Skytree (Sukaitsuri - I kid you not, this is apparently the Japanese name. Read it aloud) buuuut, we got a little sidetracked. First we found Sumida park along the Sumida River which was filled with beautiful Cherry Blossom trees! Very beautiful, very romantic and very confusing in regards to where you’re allowed to walk and where you can only ride your bicycle. Oops. We walked on, determined to get to the skytree but when we were almost at the foot of the tower we saw an anime and gudetama inspired café which, naturally, we had to check out. We also had to check out the anime shop next to it. We had to. After some anime merch we went to the café and ordered some, um, questionable food. Those are squidballs btw. We couldn’t read the menu and just hoped for the best. The desserts however? Very nice and decorated in accordance to some anime boys we don’t really know who are. In the end we didn’t get to the skytree, only the anime shop at the foot of it. We did, however, get to see the skytree with lights in it at night which was pretty neat. And that was it for the first day!
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