雷門

Today, I went to Asakusa to visit Kaminari-mon, which is basically this huge gate and lantern with a temple. In between the gate and the temple, there are stores lined all along the path. A lot of it is tourist oriented, but it looks like there's also a lot of good snack foods. There were a lot of people, so it was kinda crazy, but it was nice to actually see a temple in Tokyo. So I did the whole fan yourself with smoke, go in, bow, clap, and throw money. Some people throw that money from really far. o.O The underside of the big lantern was really pretty, but it was hard to get a picture of since I couldn't see where I was shooting and there were so many people trying to take pictures.


After I looked around at the temple, I proceeded to look at the food stands set up. My favorite thing was the little candy stick things. (Posted below) The outside was basically chewy and sticky like botan rice candy and the inside had a really juicy tangerine slice that I made a mess out of. Apparently it's for little kids, but I like it anyway. I also had　大だこ焼, which is just big takoyaki. There were six in the container and I could only eat 4. It was good, but honestly the dough/octopus ratio was not good. Too much dough. Stick to the normal sized ones. When I was walking back, I bought konpeito (basically colorful, cute sugar candy) from one of the shops. I couldn't help it; they're really cute and I have a sweet tooth.


I was kind of bummed that it's cloudy becaue the pictures don't look as nice, but I like that it's a bit cooler. =)

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