It is so incredibly hot and humid. I began day 2 in Tokyo by visiting Asakusa and its famous Sensō-ji temple.
At the temple I shook a container filled with sticks until one popped out, matched the marking to a drawer, and pulled out a fortune from the drawer. It looks like excellent times are in my future.
I then walked through some shops and made my way to the Tokyo Skytree with some other gaijans I've met.
We toured the shops at Skytree, but decided not to go up as it was a bit pricey and there are other cheaper places to get good views (like Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building). We did eat a delicious lunch there. I had tempura and soba noodles.
All morning I had a pounding headache from heat exhaustion so I left the group and took a 2.5 hour nap back at the apartment.
In the evening I met up with an old friend and his wife who moved to Tokyo 2 years ago. He's a chef and took me to the Tokyu Food Show which is a market in Shibuya. I'll be coming back there on the tail of my trip to pickup some items. It's pretty crazy how expensive fruit can be here. $250 melons and $80 grapes!!!
After touring the food market we went to the Hikari Building which had some stores that featured items from the various prefectures of Japan, and then ate delicious yakitori for dinner.
The last thing I did was people watch in Shibuya (similar to Times Square) near the Hachiko statue (pictured at the top of this post). There's a sad and beautiful story about this dog - I'll let you read about it on your own here.