NOVEMBER 7TH-SATURDAY,
WOKE UP THIS MORNING AT 4:30AM TO HEAD TO THE TSUJIKI FISH MARKET THE BIGGEST LIVE AUCTION IN THE WORLD.
UPON ARRIVAL AT TSUJIKI STATION WE WHERE GREETED TO A FISHY SMELL WE KNEW WE WHERE IN THE RIGHT PLACE, WE WHERE OFF TO FIND THE TUNA LIVE AUCTION THAT IS READ ABOUT IN ALL JAPAN SIGHTS BOOKS.
WE KNEW WE WHERE AT THE MARKET AS YOU COULD SEE A RUSH OF PEOPLE AND VECHILES EVERYWHERE. WE ENTERED INTO THE MARKET AND THERE WAS EVERY KIND OF FISH YOU COULD IMAGAINE FRESH AND STILL ALIVE. YOU WOULD SEE STATIONS FILLED WITH BLOOD AS THEY WHERE CUTTING THE LIVE CATCH. THE MARKET SEEMED TO NEVER END AND IT WAS STATION AFTER STATION OF FISH.
THE TUNA WAS BEING CARRIED AWAY ON LITTLE TRUCKS, ONE TRUCK FOR ONE TUNA, WE SAW A PIECE OF TUNA GETTING CUT AND THEY WHERE USING A MASSIVE SAW TO CUT IT INTO PIECES.
THE AMOUNT OF ALL THIS FISH DAILY IS INCRIDABLE AND THE THOUGHT OF WHAT TYPE SOME OF THE FISH WAS AMUSING, SOME OF IT LOOKED SO WEIRD AND WONDERED WHAT IT WAS USED TO COOK FOR/EAT. I TOOK MANY PICTURES FOR WHEN I GET HOME I CAN FIND OUT WHAT TYPE OF CREATURES THERE WAS
THE MARKET WAS SO BUSY AND MY PANTS AND SHOES WHERE GETTING SOAKED IN FISH JUICE !
I DID PICK UP A CRAB THAT WAS LIVE IT WAS A GOOD THRILL AND THEN I TRIED TO PICK UP A LOBSTER BUT IT STARTED TO MOVE SO I PUT IT DOWN. I ALSO PICK ED UP A CLAM BUT A GENTLEMEN TOLD ME IT MIGHT CLAMP MY FINGER, SO I PLACED IT DOWN. THE OCTUPUS LOOKED THE COOLEST AND IT FELT LIKE JELLY.
OH AND YES THERE WAS TINY LIL FISH PROBABLY 1INCH LONG AND SKINNY LIKE A STRAW THAT THEY WHERE ASKING PEOPLE TO TRY, YES I ATE ONE THE WHOLE BODY IN ALL, I AM THINKING WOW THERE IS A LITTLE FISH SKELTON IN SIDE MY BELLY RIGHT NOW AND THOSE POUR LITTLE EYES I ATE. I HATE FISH BUT I HAD TO TRY IT , IT WAS SOO SMALL BUT IT TASTED SOO FISHY WHAT A EXPERIENCE EWWW.
AFTER THE MARKET WE DECIDED TO TAKE THE TASUMA SHINTAKEN RAIL TO NIKKO A HISTORIAL PART OF JAPAN.
ARRIVING IN NIKKO AFTER A 2HOUR RAIL TRIP, WE WHERE GREATED TO NATURE AND NO MORE BUSY TOKYO CITY. WE FIRST WENT TO BUY A DAY PASS FOR 2000 YEN WHICH
GAVE US TRANSPORATION AROUND NIKKO, WE FIRST BOARDED THE WORLD HERTIAGE BUS AND WAS TOOK UP HILL TO THE SHRINES AND TEMPLES, WE HAD TO GET OUT AND WALK UP NUMBEROUS
STAIRS TO THE TEMPLES, THEY WHERE SET IN THE FOREST WITH TREES SO BIG THAT IT WOULD TAKE FOUR PEOPLE HOLDING HANDS AROUND TO REACH. WE DID GET TO GO INSIDE
ONE TEMPLE WHERE YOU HAD TO TAKE YOU SHOES OFF OUTSIDE AND NO PHOTO WAS ALOUD. AFTER CLIMBING MANY STAIRS AND WONDERING AROUND IN THE FOREST OF NIKKO
WE DECIDED TO GO TO LAKE CHENITEZ , TO GET THE LAKE AND FALLS WE HAD TO TAKE A BUS UP THE MOUNTAIN WITH WINDING ROADS THAT 90 DEGREE TURNS, I WAS GETTING
DIZZY WITH ALL THE BACK AND FORTH. ON THE WAY UP THE MOUNTAIN I SAW A MONKEY IN THE TREE IT WAS TOLD IN BIG SIGNS NOT TO FEED THEM, I KEPT THINKING I HAD 5
BANANNAS IN MY BIG THAT I BOUGHT AT THE FISH MARKET THIS MORNING FOR 100YEN HOPEFULLY THEY WOULDNT SMELL AND GET MY BAG LOL, BUT KNOW I WAS SAFE
WHEN WE GOT TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN WE TOOK A WALK TO THE LAKE , THE LAKE HAD MANY MAN MADE PEDDLE BOAT SHAPPED SWANS THAT PEOPLE WHERE PADDLING
ALL OVER THE LAKE IT LOOKED REALLY COOL, LOOKED LIKE A BUNCH OF GIANT SWANS EVERYWHERE. AFTER THE LAKE WE DECIDED TO GO SEE THE FALLS , THE FALLS WHERE
BEAUTFUL BUT DID NOT DO JUSTICE ON MY CAMERA. AFTER A BIT OF SIGHT SEEING WE DECIDED TO GET A BIT TO EAT THERE WAS ALOT OF JAPANNESSE NOODLE BOWLS BUT
NONE THAT LOOKED GOOD AND WE DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS IN THEM SO I SETTLED FOR A STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM CREPE, FOR SOME REASON CREPES ARE EVERY WHERE IN JAPAN, BUT
IT DID NOT COMPARE TO THE CREPE I HAD AT HARUJUKA STREET! AFTER OUT BITE WE WENT BACK ON THE BUS DOWN THE MOUNTAIN THIS TIME I WAS FEELING REALLY DIZZY
AND WAS PRAYING I WAS NOT GOING TO VOMIT, I DIDNT THANK GOD BUT STILL FELT WEISEY.
AGAIN WE HAD TO BOARD THE 2HOUR RAIL BACK TO TOKYO, MY LIFE IN TOKYO SO FAR HAS BEEN HOME ON THE RAIL SYSTEM!!
