A new day to Explore!

So, got up a little earlier this morning, well compared to our 1:30 pm start yesterday. We chatted up Gemini again to see what suggestions it might offer up. Knowing Darren was going to be able to get off work a little earlier, we were hoping to have a chance to walk around, see a few things and then meet him back at the apartment.

In the end, most of the options from Gemini we felt were a little too far away, so we pivoted back to the same area we had explored the previous day. We decided to head over to Tokyo Tower. Think of a more colorful and smaller version of the Eiffel Tower, well I think it’s smaller, and that’s the Tokyo Tower. There is also a major shrine right next door to the Tokyo Tower called Zojo-Ji Temple, where part of the Tokugawa line of the Shogun’s are buried. And to top it off, it’s only about a 30 minute walk, so it suited us perfectly.

It was an easy walk over there, and the Temple complex was very neat. It was destroyed during WWII from the Tokyo fire bombings, so the current buildings are replicas of the older buildings. But a lot of the old stone work still exists. Along the side of the complex was an area dedicated to the safety of children and grandchildren, as well as the unborn. It was very touching.

And to remind me of my own children, right down the road was a phone booth - if anyone has ever played car bingo, I think the phone booth square has become the hardest to find. We had an entire trip with the kids go a little nuts simply trying to find a phone booth. Well kids, in Japan, they still exist!Read more