There's a section of the city that's been maintained in the Edo-style which is a period in Japan's history that I seem to be rather enraptured with. I just love the architectural style and all the stuff about Samurai is something I totally geek out over. Check out some of these old shops:
Pretty cool huh? There are also no cables running over the streets in this area because they wanted to try, as much as possible, to recreate a "feel". It's strange, but until I saw the streets with no cables running back and forth over them, I didn't realize how lame they really look. Ah well, whaddayagonnado?
Continuing our travels we came across an old Bell Tower which still rings four times a day although I haven't been in the vicinity during any of the ringings to actually hear it, so I'm just going on hearsay for this one.
Then something really strange happened.
From this point on it was a lot faster getting around town. We walked through some markets and saw lots of shops selling all sorts of different things. In Japan there's a really popular sweet called Anko which is made from red Azuki beans. It has a really subtle sweetness to it that takes some time to get accustomed to after becoming conditioned to North America's rather ham-handed approach of things being so obviously sweet that you can do nothing but notice it. At any rate, I really like it.
Eventually we found our way to a museum and took in some of the history of the area, there was also a section with a set of rather humbling children's toys.
There was more walking and checking out temples and shrines and taking in all the cool sites. The day before we had found a shrine that had a foot path leading to it which presented an array of reflexology goodness and we thought we'd go and hit it a second time.
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Now, I don't mean to brag or anything, but when it comes to reflexology... I hold a black belt:
Check back soon!
~Chris
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