thankfully they were of a reasonably simple operational design. What I do find odd though is that with all of this technology to heat things up they only ever had cold taps for washing your hands! Now you may not find this strange but when they have heated loo seats, heated train seats and even heated escalator hand rails to only provide cold water to wash your hands I find most strange!

After a good wander around and a quick peek at some of the restaurants within this place, which I have to say were extortionately expensive, we decided it was time to start heading back. We had been out for a total of 8 and a half hours and are feet were definitely telling us to go home.

We got up around 8.30, not bad eh for lucky folk that don’t have to work? On today’s agenda was a trip to Senso-Ji

which is described in the guide book as the temple to visit. It was near to our hostel so we headed down there after breakfast. We also wanted to get a boat down the river to the harbour area, then head over to Odabia, which is a man-made island with loads of attractions and great views of the Tokyo harbour skyline.

The area leading down to the temple was very busy and full of little touristy shops and stalls, most of the stuff for sale was classy but there was also a far amount of tack! I still could have spent a fortune though, the Japanese art of packaging never fails to amaze me, it really does make for wonderful shop displays. We could see small amounts of smoke in the distance and knew we must be getting near to the temple. The temple itself was very impressive, and with the noise of the crowds and odd beat of a drum it was extremely atmospheric. We didn’t stay too long at the actual