A light drizzle all day. In fact, there’s been a light drizzle everyday but one since we’ve been here. On that day, all the balconies of all the apartments fluttered with clothing hung out to dry. They don’t like dryer-dried laundry here.
10:00 am: Tokyo Central Market. We bought souvenirs. My friend bought a couple of fresh fish, his favorite. His wife insisted. The price was unbeatable. We ate sushi for lunch.
12:00 noon: Ginza. We stored our souvenirs and our friend’s fish in a locker in the station, then we shopped. LMA bought a string of little tiny pearls at Miki Moto. We returned to the Ginza station and the locker and the souvenirs and the fish.
2:30 pm: Akihabra Station. We stopped here long enough to change trains and to store our souvenirs and my friend’s fish in another locker. We planned to return through this station later to retrieve our goods and his fish and then to hop on the train home.
3:00 pm: Ryogoku (Sumo Town). We buy our tickets. We are giant westerners (except for my friend’s wife and LMA, who are both very petite), so the ticketbooth girl gave the four of us two boxes for the price of one.
3:15 pm: Ryogoku. We visit the McDonald’s across the street.
3:30 pm: We enter the arena and thank the booth girl. There’s no way the four of us would have fit into one of those boxes. We spread out on our cushions, two each, and watched the wrestling.
6:15 pm: Matches over for the day, we roll with the crowd to the station. It’s rush hour!
6:25 pm: Akihabra station. We retrieve our souvenirs. It was a long day. It was a very long day for my friend’s fish. And it was a long train ride back to Tsurumi for us and for all the other rush hour riders who happened to smash and elbow into the car carrying the morning’s great fish bargain.