Day 5 in Tokyo

Love the message on the subway- ‘please set your mobile phones to silent and refrain from talking on them!’

No one is fat or obese and there are plenty of tall Japanese – note for my mum, they are not all short!

Food isn’t as healthy as we’d anticipated. Lots of high protein foods, no fresh fruit offered in any restaurants and very little for sale in shops at outrageous price. Very little in the way of veggies also, carrots, interesting variety of onions and cabbage, plus weird (to us Westerners) pickled veg. White wonderbread seems to be the norm, along with white rice, white noodles and they add eggs to everything – usually raw. Lots of fried things, whatever they are, impossible to know.

Most folk buy ready made meals or eat out as the cost is the same as eating at home. Plus with little room for storage in their homes and long work days this seems to be the easy option. (At least this is what my son tells us, and he’s lived here for some years).

Just telling y’all this as it really is so different from any culture we’ve experienced.

Everywhere is spotless, never any trash on the ground. Streets, subway just so clean, and the abundance of public loos, even in the subway, all perfectly clean. vending machines for beverages and ciggies but not junk food are in every conceivable place, outside people’s houses in residential areas and on every corner it seems.

Having a tough time eating as restaurant menus are rarely in English and although they have pictures one has no idea what is on offer or what it actually is!

Spent most of the day wandering and sampling in the #Tsukiji Fish Market (the largest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world, although only a small part is open to the public) – as you can see from the pics. Followed by a brief stroll through #RoppongiHills mall, inhaling some divine patisserie. And, get this, while in the mall spotted some Dickie’s khaki pants at the exorbitant price of 21,000 yen (about $185, which sell for under $20 at Walmart! It was a very posh store mind you!)

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