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asakusa and akihabara

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.05.03

We took Ken up to Asakusa to see the shrine complex, today. Then we hit the Akihabara "electric town".

They're both must-sees in Tokyo as far as I'm concerned. Though due to his having seen Kamakura I suspect that Asakusa was not that big a deal for Ken. Akihabara on the other hand made an impression. The "nerd city" thing was fairly apparent. And of course we popped into one or two stores. Surprisingly, perhaps, we learned that prices for solid-state hard drives are 30% higher in Akihabara than they are in Toronto.

We returned for okonomiyaki, one of my favourite dishes. Certainly something that Ken wouldn't have found in a Japanese restaurant back in Canada.

Three good things that happened today:

1. Mari loves her new guitar

2. Home-made okonomiyaki!

3. Kenny was well behaved throughout the day

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke