We got to breakfast about 8 am so we could get out to today's 1 item on our docket before the crowds got bad. We had breakfast at the hotel's buffet. We had breakfast here yesterday, too, I forgot to mention in Sunday's blog. It's an East/West buffet with rice, seaweed, soup, yogurt, very soft scrambled eggs, bacon, fruit, salad, hash brown sticks and other items. We had juice, coffee and melon Fanta. Leo joined us yesterday but not today.
The 3 adults headed out to walk through the Nakamise Shopping Street while the shops were open. Mom was wanting to buy a fridge magnet with the Japanese flag on it. We both found magnets we liked so we bought them. As we got up to the shrine I rinsed my hands as is the custom and tossed most of our coins we had left into the offering.
I wanted to try the fortune shaker box thing at the shrine that I had seen on YouTube. I did this when we were at the Miyajima Shrine, too. It's a metal box with lots of wooden sticks in it. You shake it around and shake one out of the small hole in the bottom. I got my stick, found the number written on it and the small drawer with the same corresponding number on it. I put the stick back in the box and took out my fortune. All I saw was BAD FORTUNE. I decided not to read further! The directions near the shaker box said that if you get a bad fortune that you can tie it to a specific place nearby and leave it behind, so I did. No bad juju!
We met up with Leo and walked across the street to the Asakusa Tourist Center and took the elevator up to the 8th floor for a view from their observation deck. it wasn't very high, but we were going to take a look and see if it satisfied Mom's desire to get a sense of the size of the city. And it was free, so... she was satisfied with it so we didn't need to go to Skytree and pay $20 each to go up for a super high view.
Leo wanted another katsu sandwich for lunch so he and Google maps took us on a winding trip to find the Komeda Coffee restaurant, which is part of the chain we ate at couple of times at the start of the trip. Remember pizza toast with plenty of egg? LOL. Same place. He said it was the best katsu sandwich he had all month and he wanted another one. So off went. Kenji and I shared a side salad and I had a piece of his katsu sandwich. Yummy! Mom just had the side salad.
We're all just so beat and exhausted after a month away and in the heat and humidity that an afternoon in the hotel room reading, napping, blogging and packing was just fine with us.
We ventured out for dinner and found a small place where were all had the friend noodles, Mom also ordered edamame, I ordered 3 skewers (the minimum allowed) and Kenji ordered kaarage (friend chicken chunks). I also had a shochu lemon drink. It was all light and yummy and just enough.
We then went to Family Mart and 7/11 to try and spend down our Suica cards so we don't leave any money on them, cuz we can't get refunds. Snacks and breakfast were purchased.
Off to sleep. Planes don't wait for anyone!
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