Intersections were full of trucks of all sizes and what was really neat was seeing the workers drive li'l cylinder-like tonka trucks moving the heavy boxes around. Surely, they would run one over if they were in their way so there was even a big fat sign up that told visitors to watch where they were going! Not to worry, we mastered walking through Shinjuku station, so walking thru this market that stretched about 6 blocks was easy-peasy!
After our quick observation at the fish market, we roamed around the Chinatown-like neighbourhood and had breakfast at one of the many sushi restaurants available. It's a first for both of us to eat raw fish and seafood at 9am in the morning...but it was well worth it and so so good! Hank also had a beer with his meal...who orders beer so early in the morning?! (Well, the table beside us had a group of middle-aged men who were already tanked...but still!)
We later walked across town and found our way to Tokyo Towers. Paid the $8 to go to the observation deck but noticed while we were purchasing our tickets that the cost only included an elevator ride up to the 150m mark. They make you pay an extra $6 to go all the way to the top! How tricky :P While seeing all of Tokyo was pretty cool from just the main deck, the best part about the towers was to check out all the glass look-down windows scattered throughout the floor. (Made Hank nervous but I was brave and walked right across it!)
We decided to go from Roppongi to Harajuku at this point in time so we made our way back to another train line. While crossing the busy street, Hank noticed a silver sedan with cameras mounted on the roof and excitedly screamed out, "It's the Google-maps car!" and waved to it like he knew the guy driving it. Ha, talk about a computer geek :)
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