So, what do you do if you want to blog every day about your trip and flake on the first two days? For now, I’ll just talk about today. Perhaps the previous days will fill in but the Jet Lag is kicking in.
We spent today in Asakusa. Tempura is a specialty here, and we actually managed to find both restaurants we looked for. We were cowed by the line at the first one, but braved the line at the second and had Shrimp Tempura and Soba Noodles for lunch. Then we visited the Sens?-ji temple complex and headed back to Shinjuku. There we had a disappointing “western style” dinner, and finally managed to find the jazz bar covered in the New York Times article on traipsing around Tokyo on a budget: the JazzBar Samurai is exactly as advertised, with hundreds of maneki neko statues around the room. It is well hidden on the fifth floor of a nondescript building right outside (as it turns out) the south exit of the Shinjuku Station. We didn’t see the sign until we happened to be standing right in front of the building.
