Tokyo Day 2

Today was dominated by consumer goods and retail, things were always going to head in this direction so it was useless to resist. 

It didn't start this way though.  First on the agenda was Tsukiji Fish Market.  This is really an early morning activity and turning up at 10am means that we basically get there in time to see everyone packing up for the day.  We still sort of got a feel for the place though, lots of activity and a few fish bits still about.

One interesting thing we saw was smoked fish shavings being sold.  It smelt great and I could probably just get a bag of the stuff and just eat it.  We also found people queuing to get into the sushi places for some morning sushi, I don't think we were brave enough to get involved in the world of high pressure ordering so we decided to leave it; also we were full from out usual breakfast of rice and meat.

It was onto Ginza next.  Or maybe it's more acurrate to say Bic Camera in Ginza because that is where we spent most of our time.  Bruce and I both bought cameras, I got a rather cheap Panasonic and Bruce got and overseas model Sony.  The guy helping us had good but basic english which maybe contributed to the length of the sale but i'm sure the decision making powers of Bruce and I combined probably had a bearing too.  Anyway he stuck with us for the whole time we needed him so he earned his commission.

So plans to go to Odaiba when out the window and we decided to take our tired legs back into the direction of the hostel.  A stop in Akhibara was made again for some more retail therapy and then we all finally made it back to Asakusa.  We haven't really left again today and have just been checking out the local area.

One of today highlights was checking out Rolly; a new device from Sony.  Bascially it is a portable music player which dances to the music.  It was doing a demo at the sony building in Ginza.  A very cool but pretty useless item, probably won't be seeing that in NZ!

Tomorrow is going to be cut pretty short cos we have a plane to catch and with a 3 hour checkin etc we only really have an hour in the morning.  Canada here we come!