Coming of Age

Our first day in Tokyo is a holiday. "Coming of Age Day" to be exact. We spent some time in the morning at the Hama Rikyuu garden. While we were there we stopped at a tea house in the middle of a lake and had tea:

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After that we went to Akihabara to look for toys. The main street was closed to cars so we got to roam free:

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Afterward we took the train across Tokyo center to Harajuku where we visited the Meiji Jingu shrine. Here, coming of age day activities were at a high. There was a wall of sake drums:

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and the area was packed with people:

Later we walked around the Harajuku shopping area and Lisa decided to get a haircut at a trendy salon:

Later that night we met Horie-san, Miyagawa-san and Fumiyaki-san for dinner in Ebisu, one JR stop below Harajuku. I don't remember the name of the place, but we ate a lot of food:

While we were eating, a dish came by which I was told was "fish guts". I was a bit aprehensive about trying fish guys, to which lisa said I was a wimp. I challenged her to eat a fish eyeball which she accepted, "Of course". No problem she said. Only wimps don't eat fish eyeball. So the next time we have a whole fish, she will be required to eat the eyeball.