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21/04 A quick tour of Tokyo

 We only have 1 full day in Tokyo before leaving for our trip, so I wanted to make the most of it. We visited all of the very touristy things today since it will be golden week when we get back to Tokyo. Golden week is the busiest week of the year and Japanese people don't even leave their house during this week because it is too busy. 

We started our day at Teamlabs planet. Officially it's a museum but it's so much more then that. It's an experience with all your senses. It was incredible! The different rooms where a suprise over and over again and so beautifull. My favourites have to be the flower room and the 'rain' room where thousands of lights changed on the beat of music. It's hard to explain the experience but the pictures give you an idea. 





After the museum it was time for Asakusa and it's pretty temples. We had lunch first and grandma wanted to go to either Burger King or an Italian restaurant. So we ended up eating Italian food and it was very good.


We walked around the temples and streets of Asakusa and enjoyed it. Grandma also tested her luck with one of the rituals but got a bad fortune so we had to tie it to the sticks to make it dissapear 😅 I hope we did it right or there will soon be a big fight in the family and she will loose all her money! 



We also made a deal that she was going to try 1 new food every day from now one, so we started with strawberry daifuku and she didn't really like it haha. But at least she tried! The thing about us is whenever she doesn't like something I will eat it anyway so she can try whatever she wants 😂


We had one stop left after Asakusa, Shibuya. I took her around for a quick stroll and wanted to take her for revolving sushi but the waiting time was 165 minutes! So we got something else instead and we will go get sushi another time. 

Lastly we headed to the rooftop I went to with Tammy that had the amazing view over the city. But it was raining and we didn't have an umbrella so I didn't take a picture this time haha. We might go back again when we are in Tokyo again since not a lot of people know about this place. 

We took the metro back to Nerima and I dropped grandma of at the hotel. I walked to my dormroom and went to sleep. Tomorrow we are headed for Hakone! Goodnight 😘



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