A-SOCK-SA

Woke up early (set the alarm at 7.30am) to go hunt for two caches right by the hotel. Found only one (more details on geocaching later) and then had a Japanese breakfast. Broiled salmon and some cold veggies in the main dish. A packet of very crispy nori, a bowl of warm yong tau foo-like stuff. Top of the tray are maguro cubes covered in some white sticky stuff, lady's fingers, chewy crunchy thingy. There were sticky rice (and more in a big bowl), miso soup and pickles, one of which was like sng buay but pink in colour (very sng!!!). Oolong tea in a porcelain cup and in another cup, what looked like clear water with some brown and orange sediments. That tasted like very thin stock - not sure if you supposed to pour it onto something or just drink it straight. I set it aside.First stop was a geocache near this Philippe Starck-designed building - it's the Asahi beer HQ! Yup, someone drank too much while conceptualising this.
After that, did the touristy thing and visited Asakusa (after asking the i lady a lot of questions like any custom to watch out for so I don't insult devotees, how to get here and there etc). The temple complex was packed with people. In fact, there were people everywhere I went. Turned out it was a school holiday. There were many TT shops that you have to run the gauntlet before reaching the main prayer hall. Some sold interesting stuff but I wasn't sure if they were worth the buy - I mean $7 for each handphone dangly thing!

More pictures tomorrow. Too tired today after so much walking. Looks like I'll have to play catch-up later.