Sight-seeing

Hello Minna-san (that means everyone, it's not a girls name haha.)

Sorry I haven't written for a while, I have been very very busy with work which is not good fun but then this weekend I have been able to do more things. Yesterday I decided to finally do some sight seeing, so I went to Tokyo's "old town" which is called Asakusa. It's where there's a massive temple and it's very touristy. In fact, it was so touristy, I had to buy a japanese style headband. I got the one which says Kamikaze on it hahaha. The others were not as good.
At the station in Asakusa, there were lots of people just wearing Kimono so I thought I would ask someone If I could take a photo of her. Unfortunately due to my bad Japanese I said "because you are such a beautiful Kimono, can I take a picture." She very kindly agreed.

Then we saw somewhere I should have bought a Kimono from. Or a Yukata (like a one layer Kimono- I want one because they're much cheaper than Kimono.)
It's basically a massive temple with lots of big buildings and gates and huge lanterns. It was really nice. There was one bit with loads and loads of incense sticks which you have to sniff and waft onto yourself to make you healthy and clever.
I also prayed here which was my first time at a buddhist temple.
When we first arrived at the temple, this group of Japanese people was like "do you speak English? Can we give you a tour in English around the temple?" and we were like "yes please that would be nice." They basically wanted to practice their English on some genuine aliens.
So basically we made some new friends, and hopefully we will do something again. Maybe they can guide me round the whole of Tokyo.


There were so many touristy shops which I didn't buy anything from but I did like the hilarious geisha inspired things, like dog accessories. You are actually supposed to put this on your dog. Amazing.