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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Day 7 Tsukiji Market, Asakusa, Ginza

We woke up super early to catch the 5am train... its only 3am in singapore time!
we follow the crowd and we are here at the auction's visitor area~ theres a long queue behind us... 
lucky we are early~


the auction area~

the wholesaler can check the quality of the fish by seeing the colour of the tuna  

auction starto! its very interesting to see how they bid the tuna... the person look more like singing than shouting out the bid price~

ok done~ and they will paste a sticker on the tuna~

straight outside the auction is the inner market... where they sell the rest of the seafoods




stall holders chopping the tuna that they just bidded~

uni~

on the outer market, there kitchen related stuff and food stalls...

the other must-do at tsukiji?
is of coz eating the freshest sashimi!
by the time we reach the store... its so crowded at almost all the sushi shops... 
i forget to do research for the stalls so we just queue at one of the stall that have lesser queue compared to the rest.... guess we queue for around 30mins....(its the shortest alrdy loh)


the menu and price~
not very cheap for a meal... but consider the quality that you will be getting... probably a plate might cost over 100 in SGD ba ~

inside the restuarant~ very small and it can accomodate like 10-12people... 
probably that explain the long queue~



the sakura set 3600yen

salmon & tuna set 1800yen

uni, ikura, salmon, tuna don 2000yen

free ebi soup

took the metro to asakusa

asahi beer building designed by Phillipe stark

sumida river... also a famous spot for sakura viewing

the half-completed tokyo sky tree


its only early morning... and we see people laying out their mat to reserve places for sakura viewing at night

walked a distance down and we reached the Karinarimon Gate ~

nakamise shopping street...tons of souvenirs  around






Sensoji temple... however they are having some renovation works and we cant see the appearance of the temple... but i still love this photo... the dragon look so real under the blue sky~ 

Pagoda

lucky we still can get into the temple


walked further down we saw little food stalls something like out pasar malam





aftere 5 mins we reached kappabashi aka kitchen street of tokyo.. but alot of shops didnt open.. probably we visit on a wrong day or time~ 







headed off to Ginza, the luxury shopping district  

i dont have the money to buy lux good but i think its fun looking at the various store design which we wont get to see in SG

spot a unique car too ~ 

this shop had many outlets in jap, they sell 2nd hand ticket and stuff at a cheaper price

my loots for the day~ 
my converse heels 6720yen 
something i would never see in SG converse... and this series is advertised by Namie Amuro

tokyo exclusive: asakusa hello kitty 530yen

tokyu hands pouches 1848yen

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