Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Day 1: ASAKUSA, TOKYO

We departed from Suwannabhum; Bangkok at 5.35am by Delta Airline (Northwest). Omlette was served as my breakfast, then I slept deeply along the way and couldn’t finish New Moon movie as I intended because I got a wink of sleep all night before. The snack service (Ham cheese sandwich) had been kept in my bag and became my lunch soon. We arrived Narita airport; Tokyo around 1pm (Japan time that is faster than Thailand for 2 hours). Japan Rail Pass that we had bought from Bangkok were activated and 2-day Tokyo Metro pass were bought in advanced at Narita that are much cheaper than buying in the train station (2-day pass: 980 yen, normal price 1400 yen). We catch Keisei line from Narita to our hostel (around 1000 yen

The private 6beds bedroom of Sakura hostel Asakusa was nice. Everything was all right especially the restroom and shower room that we appreciated in. After luggage was kept we start our japan journey in Asakusa around Senjoji temple, one of the famous temple in Tokyo.

Though the temple was closed already, there were some of tourist took photos with large red lantern of Senjoji temple and shopping around there.


Senjoji temple Cast lots (Siam-Si) is well-known, we didn’t hesitate to shake lots tin, a piece of stick dropped easily. There are 4 levels of forecasting, if your horoscope is not good you can hold a paper with the provided place. Normally, it is crowded with numerous tourists on daytime, souvenir stores that line up orderly on the entrance path always bustle.

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