Old & Historical Town in Tokyo...Asakusa / Ryogoku

Guess what this tower is? 

The answer is "Tokyo Skytree", the world highest broadcasting tower (634m) .

We had a lunch at a French restaurant right next to the tower.

Let's have a good meal before we set to walk around !

Today, I want to share several photos of strolling around historical area in Tokyo:)

Leaving the Tokyo Skytree, we reached Asakusa area. It took about 20 minutes by walk.

The gold building is a head office of a brewing company. It represents a glass of beer.

The shape of the top floor looks like beer foam:)

The gold object next to the beer shaped building represents fire.

Here we got to the Senso-ji, a temple in Asakusa, built by Empress Suiko in 628. 

This "Kaminari-mon" is the most famous gate to Senso-ji, 

Asakusa Nakamise Shopping Street has many shops where you can buy lots of different kinds of souvenirs.

SEE THERE!!!

Someone is on a roof !?

Watch out for "Ninja" being about to jump down, ahaha...

Let's take a ferry to the next destination:-)

We arrived Ryogoku just in time to the game!

Guess what game we would watch!? :)

It was a..... 

"Sumo Wrestling"

Sumo is the traditional sport in Japan. Two Sumo wrestlers fight in a ring.

A wrestler wins if he forced his rival out of the ring.

Just before the game, the Sumo wrestlers  throw salt to purify the ring, as a traditional practice.

They have their hair tied up in a certain style, called "Oicho". 

Oicho requires the wrestlers to glow their hair down to their shoulders.

They wear a silk belt, called "Mawashi", which is 10 meters long and weighs about 5 kilograms. 

To preserve more than 1500-year-old history, various restrictions are required in addition to having a game.

To be a Sumo wrestler, you must be at least 173cm tall and weigh 75 kilograms.

 There was a wrestler who even had surgery to put silicon on the top of his head, as he was a little shorter than 173cm. And he passed the admission test, became a strong wrestler despite of his small body for a Sumo wrestler :) 　

Unfortunately he retired about 15 years ago, yet he has become a legend of Sumo:) 

Why don't we watch his amazing performance a little bit? :-)

In the Tokyo Skytree area, we experienced the cutting-edge technology. On the other hand,  in Asakusa and Ryogoku, we enjoyed Japanese history.  We had a really fun day:-)

Thank you for stopping by!