Visiting Asakusa, Tokyo/Carlos Pueblo
We were on our way from Seward, Alaska turning toward Tokyo on a cruise ship. The captain was concerned of the weather and went straight 8 days at sea to Tokyo and avoided Hakodate, Ishinomake, and Yokohama three ports, instead we stayed overnight at Tokyo Bay. We reached the port in the afternoon and once we left the ship, it was in the late afternoon. We di manage to get on two trains, one free and one paid, to go to a closed municipal for shopping in Tokyo. This is an area of the original Tokyo in the Edo era, Tokugawa's old down. The Tsukiji Fish Market and The Ginza District are nearby. I didn't dare to explore more and when we came back to the ship, it was late at night.
On the second day, we went out again to visit Asakusa Temple. Again we took two trains, one free to a nearby train station to transfer to another train, a Yamanote line, to Asakusa station. Yamanote is a loop to connect many area in Tokyo. Asakusa Temple is nearby the station for about 5 minutes walk. There are gift shops non-stop from the main street to the front of the Temple. There were crowded with full of exciting tourists. It's amazing that we barely were able to pass the crowds. two of us did go to see the beautiful pagoda and I could read the stone Kanji of the introduction. One of the first Tokugawa's elders contributed this pagoda. Again, it was rebuilt one because of an earthquake destroyed the original one.
I enjoyed taking photos of Japanese youngsters who dressed beautiful kimono. I didn't do any shopping. It was very time passing.
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