Day two: We picked a direction, and just started walking, taking meandering paths through the alleys and back streets in the little neighborhood we're staying in, gradually making our way over towards the Sky Tree. We wandered around the little shopping mall in there, got some lunch (we had beef curry, and John had some kind of seafood ramen), then we bought pencils and postcards to break large bills into hundred yen coins so we could get toys out of the little gashapon machines. We continued wandering, and found ourselves over in this huge open-air shopping arcade thing in Asakusa. We poked around, bought some souvenirs and snacks, and explored. I got this frozen custard pastry thing, and Matt sampled Japanese McNuggets and shakes, which are apparently exactly how they used to be in America before the recipes changed. We poked around some more, and eventually wandered our way back to the apartment, where I took a much-needed nap.

"Wake me up in an hour," I said. Two hours later, I peeled myself out of bed feeling horrible. But, after I had a drink, and took a trip to the grocery store with Matt to get some food, I felt much better. Unfortunately, we left our pocket wifi at home, so we had no internet, while we were there, and I couldn't read anything/had no means of looking up kanji, soooo... we just bought some melonpan and ready-made dinners, and decided we'd come back and try again today.

Also, rice is really friggin' expensive here. Who'd have thought, right?