Day 3 - Asakusa

More sunny weather is perfect for a train ride to Asakusa, but not before stopping by the JR Ticket office and buying our train tickets to Nagano, Kanazawa and Kyoto next week.  We're going on the high speed Shinkansen so wanted to reserve our seats in advance.  We ended up with tickets at a discount price.  With that out of the way, back to the Tokyo Metro subway and off to Asakusa.

Kaminarimon Gate is the famous entrance to the processional road leading to the Senso-ji Temple and was originally erected in 942.  Today the processional road today is lined with shops.

The Buddhist Temple is made up of several historic structures.

Tokyo Skytree in the distance.

Just a little hectic between the Gate and the Temple!  Someone "may" have purchased a kimono at this store . . . .



We visited the Sumida Aquarium which was exceptional and included these little eels.

A reflection:


Tokyo Skytree is 634 m high and is the tallest freestanding broadcasting tower in the world.