Today we did many things. We visited Kapabashi street in "Kitchen Town" where you can buy anything you could possibly want for your kitchen from cookie cutters to impressive Japanese knives, to pottery bowls and kettles. They also sell to the Tokyo restaurant trade so there are shops selling chairs, no smoking and reserved table signs and of course the famous plastic food which many restaurants have outside advertising their menu, and many a foreign tourist is grateful for. Below is a picture of some plastic fruit and veg.
I bought myself a cat cookie cutter and one shaped like a tea pot and another like the face of Rilakkuma bear.
After our walk up and down Kappabashi street we went to Senso ji temple at Asakusa. Jase hadn't been here before - I visited it alone a couple of years ago when Jase was working and I was amusing myself. It's a temple dedicated to the goddess Kannon (closely linked to Guanyin) the goddess of mercy.
Below is a photo of people wafting incense on to them selves for good luck. I had a go too.
At the side of the temple are smaller gardens and statues like this one of the Buddha.
There is also a stream with Coi
And a waterfall.
After grabbing a snack from one of the many stalls that line the roads to the temple we popped back to Akahibara and then to Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden. It was a lovely peaceful garden of greens and pinks with a lake in the middle.
I love all the greenery in the heart of Tokyo. This park is flanked by both a train line and an express way!
It was a lovely spot to explore this afternoon as it got very hot.
Back at the hotel we started our evening with a cocktail. I had a mango mojito which was very refreshing.
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