Sunday, November 05, 2006
Japan Day 6
Weather: Rainy
Places visited: Tsukiji Fish Market, Ameyoko Street, Asakusabashi & Odaiba
We woke up at 4.15am (3.15am Singapore time) to get ready to go to Tsukiji fish market. We caught the first train at 5.30am and reached the Tsukiji Station at about 6.00am. We were too lazy to read the map plus it was raining and very cold (10-13 degrees celcius), so we decided to just tail anyone who wore a pair of Phua Chu Kang boots.
Did not managed to show in this picture
that the man sitting on the right is
wearing those Phua Chu Kang boots
(though not yellow colour). But the empty
styrofoam boxes gave us a hint
that he could be heading towards the market! But Duh... after trailing him for a
while, he did not seem to be heading for our destination and we lost him
halfway. :-P
By the time we reached the market, the action were all gone. Looks like the fish auctioning really happens very early in the morning (actually 4-5.00am we heard)! Anyway, we then proceeded to have sushi breakfast before heading to Ameyoko Street for some shopping. Bought a number of food stuff from there for office colleagues. It's actually quite a nice place to walk around. But too bad forgot to take any photos there!
The place where the 'fish auctionging'
is supposed to take place. But I guess
we were too late!
Still, there are these men driving this
fork-lift looking vehicle
and zooming about in neck-breaking speed!
Walking into the wet market right next
to the 'fish auctioning'
place.
Saw these men cutting up a huge fish
(dunno what fish is that. Tuna?)!
Scallops! Yum yum!
Eer.. fish roe. Don't look very
appetizing in this state.
Octopus... eeks, I don't like.
Sushi breakfast: Oops... too hungry so
ate up everything before taking a
picture.
Sushi breakfast: Luckily, when the
second and third place arrived, I remembered
to take a picture. Yum
Yum......
I then split from my friends to go to Asakusabashi to see their beads shops while my friends went ahead to Odaiba first. There's 4-5 shops within the same stretch of road just outside the subway station, so it's really quite convenient. Bought some beads and silver parts that are not available in Singapore before proceeding to Odaiba to meet up with my friends.
As it was raining the whole day, our spirits were really dampen and we didn't buy a lot of stuff or take a lot of photos.
Die die also must take a picture under
the strong wind and heavy rain! My hands could not be steady so the shot
came
out blury.
This is the only clear picture I
had of Odaiba. There's Tokyo tower in the background (really small and
orange in
colour, followed by the rainbow bridge in front and then the
Statue of
Liberty.
Oh, by the way, one interesting thing about Japan is that they have a lot of lockers in the subway and everywhere else. So we decided to make use of them by depositing our food purchases from Ameyoko street in one of them so that we free ourselves from carrying so many things around. Sure is convenient. We return back to the station to pick up our stuff again before proceeding back to our hotel.
10:05 PM
I am The Emperor
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