Asakusa-Monday afternoon

Ok I'm really sorry I've been so bad about updating this week. I feel like I've been super busy! I'm going to break the days up into separate blogs for organization's sake and also that way each blog isn't so long!

Monday we were originally going to go to see the ocean, but it ended up being rainy and cold, so we decided to save it for another day. Carly at the last minute decided to stay in, so it was just me and Beth. We decided to go into Asakusa and do a little exploring there. The first things we ran into was this huge 5 story pagoda, Tokyo's largest temple, and the Asakusa shrine. Temples represent the Buddhist religion, while shrines represent the Shinto religion (in case you didn't know). I guess in Japan many people are both religions, so that's why there's usually a shrine next to a temple, or even sometimes inside a temple. Anyways, after that we did some wandering around the million tiny shops. There were some really cute shops and some of the streets were lined with cherry blossoms, as you will see in one of the pictures below. The interesting thing about this area was that most of the shops were new, but they were made to look old.

This one road on the side of town had shops on both sides of the road that had baking equipment and things for restaurants. There were all these light up signs and huge supplies like the giant whisk! It was really cool. It was cold out all day and a little rainy, but it was still a really fun day. We even managed to get in a little ice cream :) We went to this shop and I tried some sesame seed ice cream. It's weird because it is black and it had a different texture, but it was good. I wouldn't say it tasted like sesame seeds exactly, but it was good.

This is me in front of Asakusa Temple, the biggest in Tokyo.

This is the five story pagoda that is supposedly pretty famous.

This is down one of the streets by the temple. There are a ton of shops. They were so cute!

Normal whisk vs. super mega ultra whisk