Our first full day in Tokyo. Our view from our hotel.

In the breakfast area of the hotel, there was a vending machine with nigiri, unfortunately it was out of order.

Our first task was to figure out to get our Pasmo cards, they are cards that work on the subways and at convenience stores. You load them up and then just tap when entering the subways.

One of the reasons we had just carry on luggage as we would be doing a lot of this in the subways.

We headed to our second hotel. It was the APA Hotel Hatchobori-eki Minami that was close to the Tsukiji market area.

The market was very busy.

with lots of interesting seafood and food.

We got some grilled squid.

From the Tsukji market we headed for the Imperial Palace gardens.

Our final stop of the day was Asakusa.

The gate to Senso-ji Temple

It is also Tokyo’s biggest souvenir market.

The Senso-ji temple is an ancient Buddhist temple. It is Tokyo’s oldest temple, and one of its most significant.