Day Two, Part Three: Asakusa

With haslet in our tummies and a lot of laughs at the lunch we had, we had more spring in our step as we contined onto Sensoji Temple. The streets started becoming busier and filling with stores and then vendors selling traditional Edo goods, sweets, and foods. We had made it to Sensoji temple and found it to be one of Tokyo's prime tourist attractions.

The Sensoji temple (also known as Asakusa Kannon) is Tokyo's oldest temple, dating to March 18, 628 (guidebook information). The main gate to the temple is the Grand Kaminarimon Gate with a gigantic red paper lantern.





Dinner was back in Shinjuku, in a izakaya-style restaurant on Yasukuni Dori, joining the Abbotts, Bandieras, and Wayne. Another culinary adventure in the evening was beef kidney yakitori (of which I wasn't a huge fan because of its fibrous chewiness).