today is sight-seeing day at ryogoku. our trip started off by visiting the tokyo museum of history. purchased our 'student' tickets at the cost of $460yen. an enormous architecturally designed building that consists of 3 floors. we squeezed our way through swarming students and elderly for about 2 hours before we decided to dip to the sumo stadium. dozens of professional sumo wrestlers entertained fans for hours while the contestants are being broadcasted on to the sumo tv channel. the average sumo wrestlers earn up to $9,000 per month while a yokuzuna (highest sumo title and very well respected in japan) earns a whopping $24,000 per month. our stay there lasted about an hour and as we walked out we saw people were purchasing tickets at the cost of $2,100 per person. we had no idea the show required tickets to be purchased and felt fortunate to participate at this grand event without spending a dime. our sight-seeing adventure concluded by returning back to shinjuku looking for a bike shop. we were unable to find a bike shop but we stumbled into korea town.
on our way to ryogoku. albert doesn't blend in with the locals today due to his sta hat
middle school/high school in ryogoku
stairway to the museum entrance
miniture version of ancient japanese architecture
randy taking it easy in the lounge
albert deciding if he should blend in with the locals by taking his hat off
actual candy designed to look like bento box
randy has been begging to see the sumos
sumo stadium with lots of vacancies
jap sumo versus white sumo. white dude won easily
korean community in shinjuku
$860 yen for rice cake?
this advertisement screen belongs to one of the largest korean super market in tokyo
bert and randy posing in front of a japanese temple/shrine
this toilet device can be found on majority of the toilets in japan. after you're done sitting on the toilet, a button can be pressed to shoot clean water into you buttock or female delicate. there are two ways to flush toilets in japan. one for number 2 (more water released from the tank) and one for number 1 (less water released from the tank).
turkish restaurant in shinjuku. we spent $6,300yen eating an authentic and delicious mediteranian style meal. the owner is turk and is able to speak english/japanese. the food is a 9 out of 10 but the owner's attitude is a 2 out of 10
we visited over 20 stores to find green tea kit kat bars but failed miserably. the only place we found these delicious snacks was inside the claw prize machine at the gaming stations. we spent $4,000 yen and won 7 of these babies. these kit kat bars are RARE and are being sold on ebay for around $20us a box.
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