I could not wake up this morning, I was so tired from travelling yesterday! Scott was up waiting for me! We got showered and I finally conditioned my hair, I had forgotten what it feels like to had conditioned hair! It was good!

From our room window we could see Mount Fuji! It had snow on it and looked pretty spectacular! Hopefully we will be able to see it up the Skytree, Scott read that it is hard to see it at this time of the year because of the haze; they have extended the days that you can see it because they have reduced their pollution levels, so fingers crossed!

We walked to the Skytree, google maps said it was only 4.4km, we have to get our steps in somehow! It was pretty quiet on the roads but it was a Saturday! There are no dustbins around the roads but there is no rubbish; a little like Singapore! It's a very clean city of what we have seen so far by walking to the sky treen

Everyone was riding their bicycles on the pavements, ringing their bells as they went passed, I'm not going to lie they annoyed the s*** out of me a after a while! Who allows so many bicycles on a pedestrian pavement in a big city and doesn't invent a bicycle lane on the road!?

It was cold last night when we got to the hotel at 1am in the morning so we weren't expecting the weather to be extra hot today, low and behold the weather was hot and it was around 30 degrees! We were melting walking to the Skytree!

We love the Japanese writing on the roads, on the sides of buildings, it's everywhere! Maybe because the writing is read top to bottom and not left to right or right to left, that's what makes it cool and of course the crazy symbols! We spotted a little street stall market where there were gazebos and little vans selling their goods, it was mostly plants and food but all the pensioners were pulling their trolleys filling them with plants! Hehe.
We also spotted some sort of carriage
But it was not being pulled by a horse it was being pulled/pushed by a man which was sort of bizarre!

Finally getting to the skytree, it looks a lot taller up close than further away! There were people everywhere, it's Saturday so there are Japanese tourists about aswell so extra busy! We did manage to find the international tourists fast pass lane, we didn't pay any different to other people we were just allowed to fast track because we were international tourists! Good job for it aswell because the queues were enormous!
It was a little scary up at the top but the views were incredible of Tokyo, we weren't lucky enough to spot Mount Fuji though because the haze had come over by now. We did spot some football pitches on the top of buildings though, crazy! We went up higher to the 450th floor which I think was about 500 metres high, that was scary! Scott was a little on edge at first not liking heights and everything! Haha.
I noticed Tokyo is a little like America with their roads, they're very much grid like form.

We went down and underneath the Skytree to the food court to get some lunch, everything is in Japanese, it's very different to the rest of Asia, Japan don't really need to cater for tourists because they're wealthy enough without us tourists so they don't need to cater for them with English signs or menus. It's going to be a little bit of a nightmare! It's a good job the menus have photos so that we can just point at them! We managed to quickly grab a seat and ordered some food, we ordered ramen I think. It was pulled pork with spring onions and noodles; I didn't really eat the pork I just have it to Scott! It the dish was delicious though.
Next we took the monorail over to Asakusa district which has more of a cultural feel to it with old temples and buildings, we seen the Senso ji temple which was very pretty! There was a sumo wrestler outside it with his traditional clothing on! That was awesome to see! We did see some girls dressed up in the geisha outfits but they didn't have the make up on.
When we were inside we noticed them doing fortune tellers, you put 100yen in the box and you had a metal cyclised full of chopsticks with a Japanese symbol on the end, you had to match the symbol with the draw and you could get your fortune paper out of the draw, thank god I had an easy symbol to find! Haha. I wanted to keep my paper but you had to tie it around a grid type of thing to allow it to come true.

Afterwards we had a look around the area, it was a nice area! Lots of Japanese convenient stores and little restaurants, we decided to go back and have a nap though because we had walked miles and were both shattered still from travelling yesterday. So we got the metro back and I had a two hour nap but Scott didn't give in!

This evening we were going out to see the famous scramble crossing in Shibuya district. We weren't expecting there to be as many people as there actually was when we arrived out of the station! There were about 5 roads with traffic lights and a crossing for each road and one going through the middle where technically in Britain there should be a roundabout instead, it was crazy! Hundreds of people crossing the road every time the lights changed!

The lights were incredible, it was like being on Times Square but on a bigger scale and with Japanese writing everywhere! We went into Starbucks and sat upstairs so that we could get a few good photos of the crossing.
It was all well and good for the first 20 minutes but then all of a sudden I felt the table up against the window moving and I thought someone was being annoying and shaking it, then I looked up and noticed the light shades swinging... Then the window frame was ferociously shaking and I asked Scott "is this an earthquake" even the Japanese girls looked scared so that made me feel even more worried! All I thought was 's***! What happens if buildings start falling we are pretty screwed here with all these high rise buildings!' Luckily it stopped after about a minute, I was really shaken up. I heard some men saying something about 8.5, if there was an earthquake at 8.5 on land it's going to have done some incredible damage!

Everyone seemed to go back to their normal selves, getting on with everyday life. I was still walking around like bambie, I think Scott was hiding his nervousness!
This place was full of shops and little restaurants and cafés but we couldn't read the menu and the we weren't sure what food we would be buying so we skipped the cafés and went to a street stall and got a chicken wrap which was delicious!

The train back was a nightmare! We got on the train at 9.45pm, the train didn't move until 23.30pm because they were checking he tracks due to earthquake. It's a good thing I suppose but we got chatting to a Japanese boy and he said that usually when this happens you only have to wait about 15 minutes. Oh great! What the hell was wrong now!? Luckily everything was good it was just a stupidly long wait! So much for he early night for us tonight! We got back just after midnight.
I didn't really sleep that much, worried about the earthquake! We found out that it was out at sea but it was the third one this week. Scott was trying to reassure me and make a joke out of it but I was having none of it!

A sleepless night for me it is!