Tokyo Tour Norio Style

Yesterday we were able to do some more site seeing. I think you could tour just Tokyo for weeks and not be able to see all there is to see.

Norio was our tour guide. He had been anxious to show us around. The day before he had made a plan. Unfortunately that was foiled by the rain threatening weather.

We met at the same dog statue as we had met the other girls. Apparently this statue is pretty famous. I have seen it quite a few times and have yet to take a picture of it. I probably will not get one now, as I currently have no plans to return to the Shibuya station where it is located.

I ate my words to T.J. ("Today's tour will be very different from our other tour.") when we ate at exactly the same restaurant that we had eaten at with the girls. We even had the same server. Oh well, it was still good!

Norio has a tourist book from 2002. It is still good. They have a ton of stuff in there that you can do for free. He was nervous about planning for us, but he did a great job. We wanted to stick around Shibuya for a while so that Mikkun could meet up with us later. That decision led to going to this Japanese science center thing. It was really cool. Unfortunately for us there was a limited amount of English, but that was cool. We are in Japan. Unfortunately for you, I did not take a picture inside or out.

Mikkun met up with us after our adventure at the science center. We decided that we would go to the emperor's palace. We needed to travel to another area by train. This is where we met Joanna's new friend. A rather large, brown rat. Wow that thing was sick.

The emperor's pad is tight yo. It is so tight that no one gets to go in. But we had a fun time walking there and walking around it. There is a mot, seriously.

The River on the way to the Emperor's House

Cool Bridge by the Emperor's House

Norio, Me, Joanna and Mary infront of the cool bridge.

Norio and Me

Mikkun: Apparently doing his "Peace Warior" pose

Then we went to the Diet. This is the Japanese version of the house of congress. It was pretty cool, but once again were were not allowed to go in. Oh well.

The Diet

We then proceeded to a Shabu Shabu place. Shabu Shabu is a cook your own food type place. They bring out a couple big plates of meat and veggies and then you put them into these pots of boiling broth like stuff. When you take it out you dip it in either soy sauce or sesame sauce and enjoy. I learned that dipping is not only good for flavor, but for cooling off meat. Yikes, I burnt my tongue! I should have taken a picture of that too, but I did not. Sorry friends.

Norio had to a meeting and had to leave us, so we then met up with Eddie in his Wasadea apartment.

It was such a great day!