Stalls

Streets lined with food stalls. We gave the squid balls a miss!

Takeshita street

Well we found the street where all those funky people buy their clothes and hang out in crazy costumes around Tokyo. It's just one helluva crazy place! Taki to the max!

Time for lunch

Crispy chicken in teriyaki sauce wrapped in a steamed bun. Yum!

New Year Respects

Queued with a million people to get to the temple. A New Year tradition to make the first visit of the year. Amazing crowd control - there were stewards with walk / don't walk signs and megaphones to herd everyone round to throw money to the sound of ceremonial drums, buy fortune arrows and then tie their fortunes to bits of string. Quite an experience!

A walk in the park

Escaped the mayhem of the streets for a bit and spent some time walking around one of the biggest parks in Tokyo.

The New Year

Woke up ridiculously early and off to Shibuya first thing. Funky shopping district and actually surprisingly busy. Cool!

Flicks

Back to Tokyo. Thought it would be fun to go to see a film in the evening as options were limited so went to Roppingi Hills - a big entertainments complex with a huge multi-plex to see the new Mission Impossible. Struggled a bit as 10pm was really past our bed time so the explosions kept waking us with a start! I'm sure the girl next to me was laughing :-/

Film did drag on a bit so New Year was a bit wierd as we were making our way back to the hotel through deserted streets but we did hear a clock chiming as we crossed the landmark crossing they modelled Oxford Circus on. Everything is different here! Anyway....

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

B&B :-) xx xx

That's Wierd

Seen this in London, Bilbao and now in Tokyo - them things sure do get about!