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Tsukiji Fish Market and Day Trip to NIkko

JAPAN | Saturday, 7 November 2009 | Views [389] | Comments [1]

So this would have been way better detailed but I lost the first version I had of it which was very frustrating.  Ok so again here we go.  Stacey and I got up super early 4am to go to the tokyo fish market.  which we kept putting off a lot and I was starting to think we werent going to see it at all.  Which I'm glad we didn't cause it was the best part of Tokyo for me.  I dont even like sea food but to see all the stuff they haul out of the sea was amazing!  The stuff they get there is like triple the size of what you would see at a super market at home.  When you first walk into the market its a whole bunch of mini restaurants that are basically just a counter with little dishes on it and what their cooking with and bar stools pushed up to them.  As you walk further its all the stuff they catch in the day packaged up ready to sell.  And everything is perfectly packaged and looks so pretty, colourful, fresh, and tidy.  At the very end is where all the fresh stuff is sitting.  Were talking octopus,clams,lobster,crab,shrimp,and the biggest fish you can imagine.  Fish so big it should be considered sharks.  I mean the tuna is so big stacey had her arms stretched out as far as they could go and the fish was still longer!  They are everywhere and look like a bunch of big dead sharks.  There are buckets and buckets of everything you can imagine.  Things I never knew existed!  And there are these little trucks carting the fish around and they dont care that your standing there they will run your ass over.  Oh ya and the fish were so big they had these huge eyes that looked like those eyes you glue on puppets and crafts those jiggly eyes.  NOt sure if anyone knows what I'm talking about but it creeped me out.  Stacey was going aroudn touching everything but I was too grossed out to.  After the fish market we took a train to Nikko which was like something out of a post card. A photographers dream I'm sure.  It's so beautiful this time of year with all the leaves turning different fall colours.  Their maple leaves are shaped different than ours and turn a lot more red and orange.  Nikko actually reminded me a lot of Banff.  Just how the town was nestled amongst the most beautiful scenery.  There we checked out some Shinto Temples that pretty much looked like the ones we saw in Tokyo but with the nature around them made it look so much more amazing.  We also passed the sacred bridge that overlooks this nice fresh spring that goes over these very black rocks.  I suck at describing things I know so just look at the pictures and you'll see. But even the pictures do no justice.   After checking out the temples we took this bus that took us up to Chuzenji-Ko to where the Kegon-no-taki water fall is.  Again amazing but pics do no justice.  After that we headed back to Tokyo and Tomorrow its off to Kyoto.

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Just keep up the chatting sweetie, I love reading all this stuff, the eyeballs, oh ya!

  marnie Nov 8, 2009 1:25 PM

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