Day 3 Asakusa and Harajuku

So day 3 comes around, my time clock has been adjusted and today was packed with stuff. To start off we met up with Laurie and Nathalia from Sam and Dave's and headed down to Asakusa to check out the Senso-Ji temple. Now coincidentally there was a festival going on at the same time. So this place was packed with people. The festival is called the Sanja Matsuri. Now during this fetival you get to see about 100 portable shrines being paraded through Asakusa. So you see groups of people all wearing the same clothes and start chanting out stuff. But it looked like each shrine was individual, so each group was showing their pride. I was personally happy to take a visit to a temple during a festival because I always wanted to try the food at a festival. So if your looking for authentic japanese stuff. Definitely this would be the place to get it. There were so many items such as kimonos, yukatas, sake sets, anything you think is Japanese they got it here.

Asides from showing your respects at the temple, there were also little activities that you could partake in. Activities included fortune telling, carnival games, and trying all the various festival food. Now if you want to imagine what kind of food they had out here, its definitely not fair food. You would find things like Okinomiyaki(Japanese pancake), Takoyaki(Octopus balls), various bbq sticks, roasted chestnuts and the list goes on and on. Dealing with the crowds was difficult at times, but its all part of the experience.

After enjoying this festival, we all went to a totally different festival down at Harajuku. Harajuku is one of the many fashion districts in Tokyo. Here Tokyo's fashion is on point. If you want to know whats the next trend going to the states in 2 years, you'll find it in Harajuku. Now you can guess the theme of the festival by checking out the title: One Love. Before checking out the one love festival we checked out Yayogi park. Yayogi park has a wide variety of characters and performances. Here you can see everything from skateboarders, Dixie bands, jugglers and even dancing elvis's. It was a really big park, so you see a lot of people enjoying themselves. Now at Yayogi park was the One Love Festival. So there was one love spread everywhere. I never seen so many Japanese Rhastafarians in my life. Let me tell you, there was beer and tequila everywhere. Aside from the drinks and the jerk chicken, there was a collection of Japanese Reggae performances. And let me just say that japanese reggae is off the hook. Look it up sometime. Now I noticed during the concert that everybody had two fingers in the air saying "blap blap blap". Now basically thats their version of showing love. Shooting imaginary guns in the air. It was still a great festival though. It was tight to see how one love is spread throughout the world.

Now how did we conclude the night? Our host with the most cooked a Adobo Dinner for all of us, throw a little wii action in it, and you have a dope night.

Normally I would insert some pictures at this point, but our homegirl Laicie actually made a video of that day.

Till next time.