karaoke

Sleep was definitely needed today. But the day picked up nicely after that. I went off to explore the Asakusa temple and the surrounding area with Pixie. There seemed to be some festival on today, so the area surrounding the temple was packed with people and stalls selling beautiful kimonos, strange food, and all sorts of stuff. We went inside the temple and observed people washing (or drinking and spitting out?) water from a fountain, then covering themselves in incense smoke (it is supposed to cleanse you? I think). At the temple we then threw some coins in to the box. It was fascinating watching the massive crowd throw money at the box to make a prayer. Young and old, all with the same amount of respect.
We walked past a place with geishas dancing! It was a little odd, I wasn't entirely sure what that place was.
I tell you what, when I came to England I thought the £1 shop was an amazing idea! the Japanese have taken it that one step further with their version; The 100yen shop. They are AMAZING! They literally have everything, but its not rubbish quality, its actually good! You could so furnish your entire house from stores like that (not the furniture mind). They also fulfil my cuteness fetish, by having plenty of Disney stuff (A LOT of lilo and stitch) and hello kitty stuff. I finally found some shower gel, or at least I hope it is. This lovely little assistant tried to help me in her broken English, she was the cutest thing ever! I so wanted to take her home and stick her in a box! Luckily I did not know how to say that in Japanese. So yeah if you are ever in Japan - the 100yen shop is the place to go for anything (even food)!!!

We also found this amazing ice cream place which had a massive amount of flavours, amongst the more unusual ones were "sweet potato","brown rice", "sesame", and if anyone could tell me what "marron" is? I had "green tea with milk" - nice!

Then in the evening the girls and me went for our first taste of karaoke in Japan! It was pretty ace, what with the fancy touch screen machinery, and the glow in the dark universe in our cabin! They also had a massive collection of English songs! Not just old ones either! They had all the ones that are currently in the english charts (I got the impression they loved coldplay)! I've just realised I've used a lot of exclamation marks there.