Japan 6th Day - Ueno, Ginza

OMG, I feel as if I've been in hibernation for awhile and now that I'm up, I'm sooooo behind in life and I don't have enough time to catch up. Aiyaiyai. And so . . .  without further ado . . . more pictures from Japan!!

Here's my sneaky train shot on the morning of our 6th day on our way to Ueno.


After arriving, we stopped by this bakery for a quick bite to eat first. 




Here's what we got.  Mine is the french toast thing in the middle.  It was kinda junk.  Needed maple syrup or something.






Our first stop was Ueno Park.














After visiting the park we headed across the street towards Ameyoko Market.  I thought this "walk" signal was funny.


Here's Les looking at these vending machines.


Here's Les spending some money in a vending machine.


Here's Les spending more money in a machine.


More money.


I think she spent around 10 bucks trying to get a particular toy.


Here's the entrance to Ameyoko Market where we were guarantee gonna find the candies that people asked us to bring back.


Unfortunately, we didn't find any of the candies . . . not one.


But we did find this place where for 1000 yen, this guy would fill a bag full of assorted candies for you.  Leslie told me ahead of time that after he gets done filling your bag, you are supposed to yell "motto, motto" (more, more) and then he would add a little bit more.  So, of course, after he filled our bag I yelled, "Motto, motto!!!" really loud.  Guess what happened.  He said, "No."  Hah?  Ho, da rude.  Les said we got jipped.


Anyway, after not finding our candies and after getting jipped we walked into this restaurant for lunch.


I really, really liked our choice!








We then headed home to unload and rest up.


In the evening we headed out to Ginza to look for the restaurant featured in the movie "Jiro Dreams of Sushi", not to eat there (it starts at $300/plate), but just to get a picture of the restaurant.   If you haven't seen the movie, make sure you do, and watch it in HD.  The cinematography is unreal.


First, we stopped at Negishi for dinner.


We had to wait outside for a table, so the girl brought us some tea!


Leslie ordered the Negishi Set.


I ordered the Hamburger Steak Stew.






Then on we went searching for Jiro's restaurant.


We looked and looked, walked and walked. We narrowed down the location and asked for directions at every shop on the block (almost asking at the same shop twice). We just couldn't find it.  We almost gave up.  But I'm glad we didn't.  We finally sorta found it.  We had actually passed by this place several times.  It turned out that because the restaurant was closed, the gate on the left blocked us from even getting to and seeing the restaurant itself. It was a bit disappointing, but for me it was okay.  Just getting this shot of Leslie next to the sign was enough to say "mission accomplished"


On our way back home we stopped by Shinjuku for just a little while.  Now talk about disappointing.  When I took this shot I never even noticed the "Used Camera" sign on the top right.  I woulda so wanted to check it out had I seen it then. Bummahs.


But nooooooo, I neva see um, so here we are on our way back home.


Next: Shibuya