Japan - Day 2

So on our second day in Tokyo we woke up around 4 am as we were still jet lagged and we figured this would be a good opportunity to go to the Tsukishima fish market as most of the action happens between 6-8 am. We got there and were immediately bombarded by a ton of little trucks with produce on them that were whizzing around at crazy speeds. The cars and people walk on the left hand side of the road which we learned rather quickly. The previous night we almost caused a bike accident when a biker came up behind us…we both stepped to the right to let her pass on the left which is what we would do in the states. But since its reversed in Japan, she was expecting us to step left and she could pass on the right…she wasn’t expecting us to step right and in order to avoid us she swerved more to the right and almost ran into another biker. As we apologized, she (as with the all the Japanese that we encountered) was very gracious to the annoying foreigners causing accidents.

After walking around the fish and vegetable market and viewing a plethora of seafood and veggies – most of which I recognized, but there were a couple new items, we had breakfast at a sushi bar right next to the fish market. The fish was amazingly fresh and the meal was quite good although a little pricey due to its proximity to the market. We walked around the Shibuya area for a bit and then heading back to the hostel to hang out for a bit.

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Japan - Day 2

Then we met up with my friend Eric in Shibuya for dinner. We put our name in for a reservation at a good yakitori place and walked around to kill some time. In passing we stopped by a Mos burger and Eric swore that we had to try one…never being one to turn down food, we grabbed a burger with marinated sliced beef in between a bun made of compressed rice. The meat was really flavorful and juicy and the rice bun soaked up some of the meat juices and was surprisingly good…it was definitely rice but it didn’t fall apart. After the Mos burger appetizer, we went back to the yakitori restaurant and had some delicious food like duck skewers with wasabi, ribs, pork and ginger skewers, and shrimp balls.

Afterwards we walked around Shibuya and ran into some comical things like Shibuya boys and girls, who tease their hair out and streak it in different colors; department stores with some interesting very cheap items as well as high end LV and Gucci purses; and love hotels where you can rent space by the hour or by the day.


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