4 guys from the hostel and I met down in the lobby to head to the fish market. They were exchange students studying in Singapore, 2 were from Sweden and 2 from Switzerland. We set off down the metro to the south eastern part of the city to the Tsukiji fish market. The market is crazy, trucks, fork lifts, flat bed carts whizzing by you in every direction. Definitely need your head on the swivel. Walking down the tight narrow alleys of the market there were thousands of different venders selling everything living in the water possible. We saw HUGE tuna, eel, mussels, king crab, 50 differnt types of shrimp; it was amazing. The market was about 10-15 rows with each row about 100 yards in length. The whole time you had to watch out for trucks and carts hustling through every intersection. Tourists are technically not allowed in the market until 9am when all the action dies down. So we walked quickly and stayed out of peoples way. After a down and back we felt we had enough fish so we set off to find some Sushi breakfast. We found an amazing restaurant around the corner. It had a conveyer belt going around the sushi bar. With a variety of options. You just pulled the plate of sushi when it passed by, and each plate was a different color to correspond with different prices. I had at least 9-10 plates ranging from yellow tail, tuna, salmon, crab, octopus, shrimp, barracuda, swordfish, even whale ( I was a little sensitive about eating it but it tasted amazing!). When we were done a lady came by with a device that scans the plates, all with an RFID chip, pretty cool. We checked out and headed back uptown to see what the deal with Sumo was, since a big tournament was staring the next day. We found out we needed to be there early next day to stand in line to get a general admission ticket.
After a little r&r back at the hostel we headed to Shinjuku. Know for it's largest metro station in all Japan. I read over 3 million people pass through the station a day. It was a mad house, people everywhere. We walked around the city for a whole, got a bit to eat and set off to Shibuya, for the famous people crossing intersection. It initially didn't look as big as I thought. Green waking light turns and masses of people darted across the street. We went up into a 3 story starbucks to get a higher prospective and take some pics. There must have been 2 thousand people crossing the street at a time. Crazy. We strolled around Shibuya for a bit, walking past all the shops and department stores then hopped back on the metro towards the hostel. Worn out I fell asleep in the common area and called it a night by ten to catch up on some sleep and get up early for Sumo
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