Day 3/4 Weekend Adventures!

Day 3: So the first place we decided to go on our weekend was the Tsukiji fish market. This fish market is the biggest wholesale fish market in the world and we decided it would be fun to go check the place and also indulge ourselves in a little bit of fresh sushi as well!

After waking up at 2:30AM and waiting in line for 2 hours,
we finally got to go in and see the famous tuna auction!!

Chefs and suitable buyers were all observing the tuna by looking on
the inside of jabbing the meat with a pick to take notes
 before the bidding war began. 

Us trying to figure out what was going on. The auctioneers used
sign language and weird grunts so it was extremely difficult to follow.

An expensive sushi bowl breakfast after the fish market tour. Yum!

After Tsukiji Fish Market, we were all so exhausted from
waking up so early that we decided to take a nap at this
little hut in the park.

The beautiful Hamarikyu Park next to the fish market.

After Tsukiji, we decided to hit another spot in Tokyo called Asakusa with its big famous Kaminari-Mon or Thunder Gate. 

The view of the Skytree from Asakusa.

The famous KaminariMon.

The view of the Nakamise with all of its stores lined up on the
sides as it leads up to the Sensoji Temple.

Day 4: Although the Kamakura study visit was cancelled, we still decided to visit Kamakura on our own. After we got there, we were really pleased with what we got to see as it was filled with Japanese tradition and culture as we got to see many temples and shrines.

Group photo at the entrance of the Hasedera temple.

There was a huge statue of Buddha and Kamakura
and we were even able to go inside and take a look!

Cute Japanese Shiba-inu that we saw in Kamakura.
 I guess he didn't really enjoy being
 photographed...