Tokyo - day 15

This morning we got up at 4h45 to go to the world famous Tokyo tsukiji fish market. It is the biggest fish market in the world. We got there around 6 am and walked around. It was surprising to see how many people were awake at that time (both tourists and japanese people)! The fish market is insane! It is really impressive and really big. You can walk through the little alleys between all the stands, nearly getting run over by these little carts that bring the fish from one place to another. Wherever you stand, you feel like you're in the way! They have every kind of fish in that place. They also have live fish that jump out of their box and flap around on the ground until someone kicks them and throw them back in the box. The fish market is specialised in tuna and the tunas they have overthere are huge! Most of them have their head and tail cut off, but they're still really big! We saw the auction for the frozen and non-frozen tunas. There is one guy who rings a bell and then stands on a box and the people gather around him and he starts yelling things and people raise their hand to buy the fish. The auction goes really fast and is pretty much unfollowable. It was fun to see though. After watching the auction, we walked around looking at all the other fish and shellfish they had at every stand. It went from lobsters to shrimp to eels to flounders to any other kind of sea animal you could possibly think of (just look at the pictures, some of them are part of the most disgusting animals ever!). We walked to a little alley nearby where they had a bunch of sushi restaurants. We decided to try out the super fresh sushi for breakfast. It was delicious!! Eating sushi for breakfast at 7h30 isn't as bad as it sounds! From there we walked to Ginza and saw the Kabukiza theater. We also came across many shops and buildings that were closed due to the insanely early hour we were there. We walked all the way to Akihabara, passing by the Tokyo station and all the areas in between. It was a very long walk, you can check it on a map! We got to Akihabara around 10h, just as the electronics shops were opening. Akihabara is famous for the amount of electronics shops in that area, and the place really deserves its name! We decided to go into a big 8-floor building and headed straight for the "massage chair department", where we confortably sat down and enjoyed a good half hour of free massaging! It felt great after all the walking! After that we went into a few more shops and then took the metro back to Ginza. We bought cinema tickets to go see "Hancock" and then had lunch in an italian restaurant. We still had some time before the movie started, so we went into the Sony Building to see some of their innovating products. It was awesome! They have some truly amazing things! Can't wait for them to come out in Europe! We went back to the cinema and headed up to the 9th floor to see the movie. Only in Japan would a cinema be on the 9th floor of a building!! The movie was pretty good. After that we went back to the hostel, watched "United 93", had dinner, took a shower and went to bed.

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