Japan - Day 3 Blowfish anyone?

It's getting tired now, this whole internet thing. I was really hoping to meet with Kageyuki and his wife but the complete inability to locate a wifi that will work on an ipad (they usually require flash) or an internet cafe with a computer is foiling us. I don't usually accept defeat but even the sim in the US blackberry is not talking to me. I can't tell you how frustrating this is.

On another note, I do appear to have become good at Angry Birds, my default game while waiting for the inevitable non connection. I swear, there is a business opportunity there.

Despite t'inturnut frustrations the day was a lot of fun. We headed out to Electric City (mostly in the hope of finding a solution to the aforementioned problem - as you can imagine, the response was not favorable sans 2 year contract)

After touring around at street level, and being all too bemused by Japanese girls that are old enough for jobs but hang about looking like school kids with short skirts and pigtails (anime indeed), we also went to Senji Temple, the largest of its kind in Tokyo. It had been a while since I'd seen so many westerners, all thronging around the place with cameras eagerly snapping up the view. I do count Corinne and I in that mass by the way. Rin snapped away for all she was worth and got a good number of great photos.


We also felt it consummate to try a revolving sushi bar. We'd had sushi in the morning at a place next to the Fish Market, it was excellent, though I missed Rin's wretch on a piece of raw squid.....the texture of completely raw fish is different to the texture of US sushi which I believe has to be cooked to some degree - kind of like pasteurizing or aging. Having sushi again was easy though, especially as the dishes were prepared in a central island in the middle of the restaurant, and placed on the revolving conveyor using colour coded plates to denote the price, which was just well otherwise the bill could easily have come to over $100. We put away 10 plates that included egg, Tuna, Whelk, Whitefish, Tuna Mayonnaise, Roe among others, each plate usually consisting of two pieces.....don't want you to think we were glutinous. We rinsed it down with some beer, it was good.


An early night for an early rise.