Shibuya and Tsukiji Market

On Sunday night, one of my fellow teachers, Kurt, invited me to go out in Tokyo with some other teachers and friends. This would be my first official night out in Tokyo and was a lot of fun. After having dinner at a small Thai restaurant, we headed over to the Shibuya neighborhood. This area has many foreigners and is also a young, hip part of Tokyo. After going to a few bars and a karaoke place, we decided to head over to the Tsukiji Fish Market to check out the early morning action.

Kurt and I near the Shibuya train station. There is a ton of neon in this country! Wherever there is a large concentration of people, there is sure to be tons of neon Many of the buildings have multiple businesses in them, and they all seem to slap a neon sign outside on the approriate floor of the building.

Kurt tries to befriend a lobster at the Tsukiji Market. The lobster proceeded to crawl over the edge of his "box" and fall on the ground.

Me with the head from a $50,000 tuna at the Tsukiji Fish Market. This place was huge, and you could get any type of fish or seafood you could possibly think of here. It didn't really smell like fish though, and apparently we missed the real action at the auction at 5:30 am. There seemed to still be plenty going on at 7:00 am though!