Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Day Seventeen of Travel to ? 6-16-09

TOKYO
Since the Flight to Elmendorf was cancelled today, I started the day off with an hour long massage! WOW! I needed that after hauling my body weight around in luggage! What a way to start the day! That's right...you have now seen the inside of a woman's toilet stall in Fussa Station- Tokyo, Japan. Not all together unexpected, I was taken aback for a moment when faced with this novelty. (Big Smile) That is why they say "squat" I'm sure...



I ventured into downtown Tokyo
You think it's just another water fountain? Turn that little knob and see what it does! I myself, and many other tourists got water shot into the face by this sneaky little public perk. I laughed really hard when someone got the water shot straight up into their nose!







Guards at the Imperial Palace. This reminds me of the Royals in England.
Shogun (I think).
I wandered my way around town and through the train system today and accomplished some simple, but key things. I figured out how to order sushi (even though no one spoke English and the Japanese I can speak is pitifully little) I shopped at the grocery store and found some great ingredients to take home for sushi! I could spend years here and just barely scratch the surface of all there is to experience. Tokyo is overwhelmingly AMAZING!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No, not a shogun but Kusunoki Masashige, the daimyo who led his clan in supporting the imperial court against the Ashikaga shogun. His son, Masatsura, knowing he would die in the battle at Shijonawate, carved his death poem on a door of the Nyoirin Temple using an arrowhead.