Day 3 summary

Tuesday 3rd November:
Trained out from Asakusa to Tokyo to walk around the Imperial Palace gardens. It is strange that in such a busy city, there's a massive block of nature and heritage. And a block where the city sounds do not seem to permeate. Also it was nice to not have to pay an entrance fee either!
We wandered past the musical water features, however, the music was lacking, but the water was impressive. Jumped from Tokyo to Ginza briefly to find the Mercure hotel, where we'd be checking in to the next day.

Back to Asakusa for the festivities of Cultural Day. Big parade around the town which concluded at the Senso-ji temple. The alleys leading up to and around the temple are lined with market stalls. Some beautiful hand made and traditional gifts available, along with the mass produced trinket crap too. Also the street stalls for food were demonstrating some interesting concepts for food, but, that being said, nothing really stood out as majorly weird to me. And thus far (i'm composing this post on Friday 6 Nov) nothing has been overly cliche or bizarre.

Discovered the joys of 290 Yen gyoza and Kirin whisky. Also discovered that just because something says beef, it doesn't automatically make it from a slappable part of the animal!