Mid-afternoon, I realized I was starving, so I went right over to this noodle shop about a block away from Hanayashiki and had a 600 yen bowl of heaven. It was gone in ten minutes.
Feeling much stronger, I set out for the Skytree. It turned out to be about a half-hour hike that included taking a bridge across the Sumida River.
There were many quiet residential streets on the other side of the bridge. I loved how they painted the names down the middle of each lane.
It was about 20 bucks to go up to the observation decks and I didn't bother (but we did get some amazing views of Tokyo the last weekend of the trip, from another very tall building, so those photos are coming).
The Skytree itself, though, is pretty damn wicked.
It is tall, 634 meters to the tippy-top. That's almost half a mile up.
Zooming in on the upper decks.
I'll bet the engineering behind this thing is really fascinating. |
