Day 50

Today was our last day in Japan. So our first stop was obviously going to be the fish market! Sandra was keen on this place because it boasts some good food. Me, not eating fish, wasn't so keen on the food aspect.
We made our way to the area via the Metro and found the market. Although where we entered was truely just the fish trading section of the market. Heaps of people, stores that went on as far as you could see and heaps of fish. And despite how fishy it smelt from the outside, the inside seemed quite hygenic.

The workers there often used these strange trolly things to get around. Imagine a tray for placing goods on. Then imagine a drum barrel at the front that stored the engine stearing wheel. That's what these things looked like. The newer ones were electric, but the older ones were still fuel powered.

After some walking we found where all the food stores were. Although the problem is that the lines to get food from these places were massive. A little too massive. So we simply went on our way and got food elsewhere.

We walked up to Ginza. This place has a Sony building with a display area. I was expecting a little more from this, but is was cool enough to play around with. They had an Apple stored down the road as well. this place had a floor for demoing, a floor for signing up to contracts, a floor for public training sessions (like a lecture theatre), a floor for accessories, and a floor for private lessons. The eleveator looked cool, but was annoyingly an automatic elevator. i.e. it stopped as every floor and you couldn't choose which floor you wanted to go to. You could see the finger prints on the floor numbers where people (including myself) had thought they were the floor buttons and pressed them.

It was now time to make our way to the airport. So we went back to the hotel to grab our bags, and caught the train. Now that we had a bit of a clue about the train system, it was much easier to get out than it was to get in.

We had a fair amount of time to kill until our flight to Australia, so we spent it doing the regular time wasting stuff. We managed to use all of our Yen as well. To the stage where I had to haggle for the last drink. I had 109 yen, and the water was 115 yen. The lady wouldn't sell it to me, but said she would sell the milk which was 110 yen. For such a bargain, why wouldn't I get the milk?

The flight to Australia was going to be around 9 hours. And as always, I hardly slept. This was a little harder this time around as I was still recovering from a flight a few nights ago, and this one went over night. Luckily, there were new movies for me to watch!