Day 47. Asakusa: Sensoji Temple

Tour of the day is Asakusa, the land, or rather, the city of many temples.The one with the BIG lantern (not that big ley) is quite nice. why quite only?cuz i got a bad lot went i went to seek my fortune. so i went to tie it to a stick and hope that the wind will blow it away. hehe.

Shops selling plenty of stuff

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The place is generally nice, with lots of photo taking opportunities..leading to the temple is a stretch of small shops, very nicely done up..little trinklets, japanese dolls, lanterns, foodstuff, crackers, all made up the scene..there are places selling toys too..but i will come to that later.These are more like tourist attraction i guesss...met some singaporeans there too..from their accent..hahaa..how many people speaker engrish liker us HAR?
the food there is nice, but as usual, i believe that ajinomoto did the job too well again. more shopping later, and more food sampling later...and more shopping later..and more food sampling later...you get the drift..thats the stuff we did for quite a while before we actually reach the temple.

Sensoji (also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple), Hozomon, the main gate

i take one!! nice nice?!? Hahahaha!

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The temple. Large Lantern? yea...with a 5 story pagoda next to it, there was another 1 hour of photo taking again. The crux of this tour, the smoke from the incense burnt in a caudron in the temple. People were patting the smoke onto their head, body, limbs...while i just walked through the smoke hehe...they were standing where the wind was blowing from...of course cannot get the smoke lah! ...these people...

Health-enhancing Smoking

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anyway went to get the lot after that, bad bad...Fiona also kanna...the rest...got okay lots...so sad...it's gonna be sader from now on..."the one you wait will never come back" was the most striking one...what the s#!$......oh well..i've already got lot 44 for my bicycle..bought my japanese doll for granny...hope it's what she wanted..it's paper alright..but the others seems nicer ...and there is another version of the paper doll..haiz...then i went to this shop with the BB guns..hehehehehehe...i got one for 3130yen...about 45 sing...bought a Colt ..electric powered...
no pictures for you! hehehehe...i still haven't take the picture yet...too lazy to go cock the weapon every shot..hheehe...i need the accuracy i can get...it has this hop up system, where the bullet will be subjected to spin at the tip of the barrel...details aside, its a great gun...tomorrow i will try it out..cuz today, i didn't get my batteries!!! ARRGHGHGHGHGHGHGHG....Shaonan went to get his flying dagger..wonder how he is going to practice...hahahaanyway...after doing whatever is necessary, we left and walked around...i realised that this place is actually built in the middle of the city..or the city was built around it...the usual japanese shops and department stores are just nearby...so there was't really anything new about the surroundings..minus the ASAHI beer building, where there is a sperm like thingy on the top of the building...it's foam...

Asahi building, eh..photo taken by Canon..not me...i'm better than that! =P
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haha...Walked around aimlessly for the next few hours, went to see a shop, found 200yen 2nd hand golf clubs...cool...went to check out the golf driving range nearby ..500 for 50 balls..300 per lot...ouch...finally we went back to the temple...by accident...and went to take night shots...hours later, we were eating and heading home. Fiona had fever, so i guess its going back time. The weather now is COOL...literally...maybe i should say COLD...still trying to be hero, using the windbreaker and a tshirt..but i don't think it works anymore...time to whip up my trusty jacket..the one i used in ..JAPAN 97..hehehe...the same one...only 10 shades lighter...i talked too much. writing this on sunday, after a nice sleep, and a BIG lunch. talk about it on sunday section...hehe..seeya!