temple day, among other things

Today was a day for temples and shrines.

After working out some initial disorientation (I swear, maps around here are so weird, because of the streets being un-numbers) and breakfast, we headed up to Asakusa proper and the Senso-ji / Asakusa Kannon temple complex. Absolutely gorgeous area of temples and shrines, although we were slightly put out that the garden was closed. Lots of pictures taken, which I will hopefully put up somewhere in a while (when I can find the camera cord and so on) as well as having a fabulous lunch at a little noodle place, and then walking back via the river and another park with another really pretty temple.

We also found some exceptionally pretty hair ornaments, fabric, cloth things... all sorts of pretty shopping. Lots of pretty things. And a lot of randomness.

And now I have tea to drink, so I should get to that while it's on the way from absolutely scalding to too-tepid-to-enjoy. Right now I'm just happy to be off my feet after a day of walking. But it's been a very good day.

pictures!

Pictures from today's rambling are here.

It's just a few so far, but it's a start. :) I have a lot more, but it takes a while for me to go through them, and my contacts are driving me nuts, so that's as much as I can handle at the moment.