{Our second day in Tokyo}

We woke up and decided to go to Skytree. It's a new tower in Tokyo and is the tallest tower in the world.  When we went down to talk to one of the japanese tour guides she shy'd us away from going to skytree. She said there is a 3 hour wait.  And she encouraged us to go to Tokyo Tower.  She said that Skytree is a new big tower, but that the japanese like Tokyo Tower more.  She made it sound like they enjoy it more because of the history and it's been there longer. So, we went to Tokyo Tower. It was a cool tower. Unfortunately when we got our tickets we bought the combination tickets. It involved seeing the wax museum, space wax, and a magical dungeon. They didn't tell us that they are all geared toward children. We were sad we wasted money on those, especially when they were completely silly, and cheesy. Waste. It was fun seeing the scene from the observation deck though. 

If the japanese can't drive in style then they will ride a bike in style. There are TONS of bikers. And we thought it was so funny when we saw the brand names on some of these bikes!

 There was also a ferrari. Funny huh?! Speaking of lamborghini and ferrari's...we saw quite a few of those cars driving around. It was a really nice area.

Here's Shibuya. I went into FOREVER21 and found some clothes! Just 3 shirts, but i was so excited to actually have been able to find something. There's lots of shopping here and lots of restaurants. It's a fun spot. The intersection here STOPS all 4 lanes at the intersection so that people can cross the street, and there are LOTS of people crossing the street! It's so crowded in Tokyo.

There were TONS of little eating places and shops like this everywhere. They are all soooo cute. We saw quite a few french restaurants and cafes like this.  It is very clean here, except for the random smells of sewage you would get when walking along. And we also noticed that when we spotted a white person they were usually from Europe, not America.

Gas panic is a dance club and it's fairly popular i guess. BUT when we saw it, of course shane had to take a picture with the word GAS. :)

AND of course we had to get some Cold Stone to help us feel we were in America. :) The portions are not like America. They gave shane the smallest scoop he has ever had from Cold Stone and he paid 8 bucks for it. haha!! We also went to Roppongi, which is where we got our ice cream. Roppongi was a really cool spot. And i guess Roppongi is where the night life is at. So many places about Tokyo is so totally cool and neat. I don't even know how to describe it.

Watching the Space Wax movie. This is one of those SILLY things we paid for in Tokyo Tower. We had 3D glasses, but the movie was completely dorky and we were in this teeny room. AND i don't understand how "space wax" has anything to do with a 3d movie about  dinosaurs?

The picture under this one is of shane standing on a glass window looking down at the world. This was at the observation deck in the Tower. It was kind of freaky standing on it!

The grave spots here are completely different than the one's in Okinawa. They are completely crowded here, just like the city is crowded. In fact, extremely over crowded is a better word.

I really really liked so many things about Tokyo, but i also got irritated by the constant crowding of people. There's so many people. And i got irritated that i couldn't understand anything anyone said and that i didn't know the language. And i got irritated that we kept getting stared at. I was so tired of being stared at by the end of the trip. Man it got annoying. Some looks were looks of "Is that a famous person?" OR staring and laughing like they were making fun of us, OR looking at us with curiosity, or looking at us like they DON'T like us. Many varieties of stares. :) When you are the only white person among 100, no wonder.

Shibuya....