Our last day in Tokyo we didn't really do anything. We left our hotel at about 10:30 a.m. and drove on the subway for awhile until we reached the skyliner and rode on the skyliner for about 45 minutes until it reached the airport.
Our yummy drink...
This is a picture of the SKYTREE tower, the tallest tower in the world. It is so high! Apparently they close it down on a windy day. Thats scary.
We wanted a picture of the traditional japanese roofs. The nice thing about Mainland is that they have ALL KINDS of traditional japanese homes and roofs all over. Here in okinawa you don't see much of the traditional one's. It's lots of cement block homes and buildings, i think because of the typhoons. Every once in awhile you will see the traditional home or building though.
Another thing we noticed is that here in Okinawa you see SHISA's everywhere. Almost every home or building has them placed in front. On mainland i think we only saw shisa's one time. If i remember correctly, Shisa's were kind of adopted from the Chinese during a time when Okinawa was it's own kingdom, and during a time when they did TONS of trading with the Chinese. Because of that , Okinawa adopted many chinese traditions, etc. and maybe changed it a bit to make it their own okinawa style.
We really enjoyed our trip in Tokyo. It was a good experience. We will be going back at least one more time before we move from here, and hopefully we can fit Kyoto into that trip.
I still need to post about our very first night here, the day before our Fuji climb. We went to this awesome Ninja restaurant and i will have plenty of pictures from there. Plus, i need to post temple pictures. I will do that tonight or tomorrow.
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