This was a great place for people-watching.īy the time we’d finished with all of that it was after 10 pm and we’d been going non-stop since 5:30 that morning.
We walked back and forth across the intersection a few times taking pictures of the crowds and then went up to the second floor of the department store to look out the windows. Instead we found a tasty dinner of donkatsu and Japanese curry.įortified with dinner we went down to Shibuya Station, famous for being the busiest intersection in the world. Eventually we abandoned our plan and resolved to come back the next day. Unfortunately, we had some trouble finding the entrance, and as we wandered around looking for a way in, I started to get very tired and very hungry and very cranky. The part where Kung Fu Panda came out on a cow to save the forest from the robots.Īfter the show we decided to look for Yoyogi Park which has a shrine in it. We wandered around for a while an eventually stopped at a little ramen shop for lunch. Outside of the temple there were long streets of stalls selling all kinds of souvenirs. The temple area was packed with people, many lighting incense sticks or tossing coins into a big trough in front of the Buddha statue. We arrived in the city around noon on Saturday and immediately set out to see the Sensoji Temple which was within walking distance of our hostel. It seemed a shame to live so nearby (less than a 2-hr flight) for two years and never make it to the biggest city in the world. We’ve been to Osaka and Kyoto in the past, but we’d never been further than the airport in Tokyo. This is our final holiday/day off before the end of our contract in August and was therefore our last opportunity to travel, so even though it was only a few days, we headed to Tokyo to take advantage of them.
Buddha’s birthday is celebrated according to the Lunar Calendar which means it’s on a different day each year, so it really was a happy coincidence that it fell on a Monday, creating a long weekend for us government employees. Usually, Korean holidays don’t coincide with American ones, but this past weekend (Memorial Day in the US) happened to be the holiday celebrating Buddha’s Birthday in Asia.
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