NIGHT TIME DAY FOUR - ASAHI SKYROOM AND SUSHIRO
After a nice three hour rest, we are back at it. I have read about the 22nd floor at the Asahi Building and it has a great overlook. We have chosen not to do one of the big ones, Sky Tree and Tokyo Tower, so this will be our big building lookout. Kaminarimon-Dori St. is blocked off for the end of the festival, so it's now a walking street and we walk straight down the middle of the street toward the Asahi building. Hoping to see the sunset, not so quick Mister, there is a line. Once in the lobby you take a number and wait to be called to be seated. We wait an hour. No sunset but a great light show nonetheless. After a beer and cheese plate, we go to Sushiro, which is kind of a fast food sushi place. It's one of those conveyer sushi places, and...we have to wait. Not an hour this time it went a lot quicker. Everything is automated. You get a ticket, when you number is called you scan the ticket and another paper spits out with the number of your table. At your table is a IPad like tablet and you order off the tablet and the sushi starts rolling. After about $25 of sushi we were full and back to the hotel. Another amazing day in Tokyo.



Walking in the middle of the street toward the building in the middle. Way up at the top on the right you can see the lounge.

The lounge is actually very small only room for maybe 30 people

Another lounge shot

Sky Tree in the distance

The temple outlines with some cool lights

Our table at Sushiro

Sorry for the wrong angle, but this is what you see on the ordering device.

Crossing the bridge back home for the evening

Toro for $2 not bad

Hi catch23 - Yes, we have been packing it in. That's the result of spending a year watching Youtube and trying to hit all of the places. Luckily we're not the Instagram crowd that needs a picture at every little hot spot, but we do have a long list of things to see. What doesn't get caught in the pictures is the amount of work / time to get to these places and the mental energy trying to figure out how to do that. The Tokyo train system is phenomenal and pair that with Google Maps and you can be in business. However, finding that little blue dot on your phone in the real world is quite different. Yesterday we needed to catch a bus and we are wandering all around Shibuya Crossing looking for a bus stop and then just out of the blue, my wife sees our bus coming down the street! Once we were on it though, it dropped us right where we needed to be. We looked like we had planned...hardly!

Hi mjs - and it was good Toro. It's fun because each little nigiri comes out on it's own plate, then you stack up the plates. We had maybe 10 plates but a couple next us must have had 20! Plus, it's so easy with the way you order. You take a bite, and go, Oh I want another one of those. Two key strokes later, it's on its way!

Jingu means shrine in Japanese. Ji means temple in Japanese. Most shrines are Shinto and temples are Buddhist in Japan.