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scenes from tsukiji & asakusa

Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things.

tsukiji outer market

We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at 9am. It did get crazy at 9am, so the internet was correct, once again. We had some delicious street food. There were people saying it is too touristy, but personally I appreciated the experience. Sometimes there are good reasons why it is touristy – it is because it is genuinely fun or enriching.

photo of someone stirring a pot of beef offal stew
photo of someone cooking tamago
photo of marinated seafood for sale
photo of a shop selling knives
photo of a shop selling dried goods
photo of someone sharpening a knife

asakusa

Most people come here for Sensoji temple, but I enjoyed just walking around looking at people and things.

photo of someone making japanese pancake
photo of japanese biscuits
photo of someone in a kimono taking a selfie
photo of rickshaw pullers in asakusa

Sometimes pictures tell a better story than words. Or maybe I am just sleepy and my brain cannot think of words. Or the narrative is in the curation of ten photos out of hundreds. Perhaps everything is true and nothing is true, there isn’t a need to have reasons for sharing a series of photos.

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  1. Eliness says:

    It is so surreal to recognize places I went to in person a lil bit more than a year ago! And that’s why I love photography sharing too: although they are the same places, the look people have on them and their interpretation through pictures is drastically different. I recognize the locations, and still I enjoy your own look on them 🙂

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