Well, first day in Tokyo and my legs are exhausted! Woke up and got my morning coffee out a hot can from a vending machine! Walked over the bridge and using a Japanese map managed to navigate my way to the sinsoji temple, the biggest temple in Tokyo. It was amazing! there were the initial gates, then there was a passage lined with stalls then the temple at the end. yuo can get your fortune there, by picking a stick and then taking a fortune out the box that it opens. My fortune was good, but if you get a bad fortune, then you tie it to a post and leave it behind. You can also get incense sticks to burn in special places too. the temple is the one in this pic, but i saw it is the day. Walked around the Asukusa area, which is really nice. much of Asakusa was destroyed by bombings in the war so all the buildings date to the 1950s and 60s. I went to the metro station and managed to get myself to Ginza all alone! Its not to hard when you have done it once. Ginza is a massive area full of expensive shops and very high skyscapers. It is home to Luois Voitton, Gucci, Tiffanys and every other expensive place that i wish i could afford. Went to the sony building that i had heard so much about and it didn't dissapoint. They had all the latest products that aren't even avaliable in England including 'beyond high defintion' on it all. You cuold play with all the new things and then they had like a cinema with davinci code on and the graphics and sound system were as new as they come! I watched a bit, but due to my lack of japenese it didn't make as much sense. I walked to the Hibaya park, the first western style gardens in Japan which were beautiful. When the lights are green to cross the road, they lay some funky music! walked around the park, then back through ginza and central Tokyo- the buisness centres to the Nijubashi bridge and the Sakas***amon gate which were pretty, and such a contrast to the skyscapers behind me! The predominant feature in traditional Japanese architecture appears to be the roofs, and the number of them, whilst in the modern sections it seems to be how high they can make them! I walked on to the National Diet building and the government buildings, then through Akasuta and got the train home from Tamieke. Back at the hostel now still taking in all the amazing things i have seen! language still not an issue as most of the people in the centre have basic english and there are always signs. Loving Japan!