Tokyo part 2 - Asakusa and Ginza

The next day we woke up and checked out of the hotel and then caught a taxi to Asakusa. In the hotel we were staying at we were going to be sleeping on mattresses on tatami mats on the floor. We were in a room were everything was small which is the old traditional way. The type of hotel is called a Ryokan. First of all, we had a look at our room and unpacked, next we went to a laundromat to clean our clothes which was difficult because everything was in Japanese. My mum waited at the laundromat and read her book while my dad and went for a walk. We saw some interesting things, we saw about five shops that sold samurai swords. Then we went back to the laundromat to pick my mum up. Then we walked back to our hotel. I went on my iPad while my parents looked on the internet for restaurants to go to. When they found one we went off to find it. It took a while for us to find where to go but when we got there we had to take are shoes of. The table was a table with a hotplate in the middle. We had to sit on the floor. We cooked our own food as well with a little help, there were a kind of omlette called Okonomiyaki. When we had finished our dinner, which was really good we went back to our room and went to bed.

On the second day in Asakusa, we had a Japanese style breakfast at the hotel. The we went back to our room, got ready and went to Tokyo’s oldest temple called Sensō-ji. We walked around and looked at the statues, shrines and gardens. Afterwards we walked across the Sumida river to Tokyo Skytree. We went up the tower and we had a good view of Tokyo from up there but it was cloudy so we couldn’t see Mount Fuji. We had lunch at the tower and then went on a boat along the river. When the boat trip finished, we looked for somewhere to have dinner. Mum said it could be my choice for dinner so we went to a sushi train place. I liked the food. When we finished, we walked back to our hotel and went to bed.

On the last day, we took the boat up the river again but this time we got off at Hama-rikyu Gardens. We saw a lot of plants and some trees blossoming, we also saw a three hundred year old tree and a couple of lakes with old bridges. We spent a couple of hours walking around the grounds and then walked to Ginza. There are a lot of expensive shops in Ginza. We had lunch there and then headed back to catch the boat to Asakusa. We walked to Kappabashi shopping street which sells things for restaurants like chairs and bowls but also, fake food! The fake food is more expensive than the real thing and a lot of restaurants in Japan have displays of the dishes they sell outside the restaurant so you know what kind of food they serve. From there we walked to Hanayashiki which is the oldest amusement park in Japan. Mum and I went onto the lamest roller coaster ever. Mum said that it was funny cause it was so bad. We walked around all the little souvenir shops and then went to a supermarket and bought ham, cheese and bread to make sandwiches for a cheap dinner. We went back to our room, made the sandwiches and ate them. I went on my iPad for a bit and then went to bed.