Very relaxing day. Spent most of it at the Edo Tokyo museum, right by Ryogoku station. Apparently the area also has a sumo stadium nearby so a lot of the souvenir shops are geared towards sumo paraphanelia, and the food shops have sumo noodles, meant to bulk you up. We ended up eating at this little rice bowl place, one amongst a row of places underneath the train tracks.
The museum was really good - takes you through the history of Edo, from its roots in ancient Japan to modern day, and in doing so provides a really good overview of Japanese culture. There were some interactive exhibits which were fun to do, but my favourite part were the super intricate dioramas. One of them had something like 1500 little people in it. They provided binoculars so you could get a really close look, and it was honestly amazing. Another notable was the really good gift shop.
After that we headed in to Kichijoji for me to pick up some things I needed - mainly luggage straps, as I'm concerned about jamming my suitcase to capacity - the hard sides are good for safety, but don't really have any give. Then dinner at Coco curry house here in Hishagi Koganei, where I had some sort of Japanese style curry (not spicy, and definitely not an indian curry)/dori (apparently an italian preparation really big in japan - essentially covered in a cheesy cream sauce and baked) hybrid. Yummy. And now were back at Helen's early. Or at least it feels super early because I'm not totally exhausted. Doing a load of laundry at the moment, then possibly sorting some pictures before bed. if all goes to plan Ill have a picture post ready for the morning.
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