Continue to visit Tokyo/Carlos Pueblo

Continue to visit Tokyo/Carlos Pueblo

It was very miserable for the first two days in Tokyo, lost on getting off the train

station to find the inn; walking on a raining on the second day to continue to visit

Tokyo. I attempted to solve my first issue of this trip, to find a broken line for the

charger for my notebook; therefore, we went to Akihabara, an electrical center

of Tokyo nearby the inn. Then, I bought something and found out later which was

not the right one.  Then, we took Yamanote Line again to visit the famous Hachiko

Statue at Shibuya Station and continued to Ginza afterward and ended up at the

world known Tsukiji fish market.

I noticed Akihabara name from a Build, Operate, and Transfer BOT project in Taipei

City for the identical function of Akihabara in Tokyo and I like to know what it looked

like. We were early for that morning and most of the stores were not open. Finally

after several blocks walking, I found a Family Mart to get a help from the clerk to buy

an identical line to replace the malfunctioned one. The problem was that the line was

for telephone connection and one end was a little big to go into the notebook.

Hachiko’s statue is in front of JR Shibuya Station. We knew him through the reinforce-

ment of Richard Gere’s Oscar award winning film. Like most of the tourists from Japan

and all over the world, we must join the que to take picture with him. I have been very

amazed that this nation can generate so many touching novels influencing the rest of

the world. Last time in Japan, I made a mistake to visit Akita, Hachiko’s hometown on

the shore of the Sea of Japan and was advice that statue should be at Shibuya Station.

The owner was a professor who resided at Shibuya and Hachiko had been waiting at

the station after the owner’s death of heart attack for the rest of his remaining life.

Finally, I got the opportunity to visit the famous Ginza district for only two large

avenue. Ginza is famous of many, I did see many beautiful high rise building and

at the turn of second avenue, I saw the famous Kabuki theatres. We kept on walking

toward Tsukiji Hongan-Ji Temple and Tsukiji market. We got Tsukiji by accident because

that I didn’t know where was the location and we just walked into it. Amy liked to have

a sashimi lunch at Tsukiji Fish Market and we accomplished it while walking at that

direction.

Tsukiji Hongan-Ji is a Buddhist temple affiliated to Nishi Hongan-Ji of Kyoto, a clear earth

branch of Japanese Buddhism. I have visited both Nishi and Higashi head temples in

Kyoto and also a ruined one, Nishi, in Taipei. The main function of this temple is a resting

place of the death, their ashes. This temple also a final resting place for the death of

Japanese between 1895-1945 in Taiwan.