The Road Less Traveled

Matthew’s Mama in Japan 2

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Note from Matthew: This was actually written Saturday night, so it references some of the same stuff as the previous entry.

Hi! Carole from Japan. This morning we got up and had breakfast in the hotel dining room-a nice combination of Japanese and western food. First we went to the Sensoji Temple. It’s a really cool and quite large temple in the middle of Tokyo. There is a huge archway at the entrance with a very large-maybe 20 foot- lantern hanging down. On the way down the walkway to the actual temple is a huge shopping area of many “streets”. We only did one street-very long. I bought some souvenirs and some papers for scrapbooking. The temple itself had much incense and many people lighting incense for prayers…also buying good luck charms.Then we went to the Tokyo Tower. It looks much like the Eiffel Tower but in red. We rode up to the top and you could see 360 degrees around the city. It was very beautiful up there. We are back at the hotel now and have ordered pizza.