With 3 hours of sleep, woken up by the smell of miso soup prepared by our fellow coursemate who’s in charge of breakfast that day, sleep deprived but filled with excitement. For those of us that arrived last night, this is our first time seeing Tokyo in well lit conditions.
Our itinerary for the day was to visit Asakusa Tourist Cultural center on foot! It was located 2.3 km away from where we were staying. For the average Malaysian, that is too much to walk, but the weather was good, it felt like they had a huge air-conditioner encapsulating the entire city, making it a lovely temperature of 17 to 22 degree celsius.
As we stroll along the unexpectedly quiet streets of Tokyo we were in awe of the cleanliness of the streets, joking about what we would see if this were to be a street in Malaysia, subconsciously doing street comparison study already.
The walk took us approximately 30 minutes, but we took a little longer as we stopped at the traffic lights - something rather unnatural to us, especially when the streets were clearly empty, but we obeyed the rules nonetheless as we didn’t want to be deported because of jaywalking.
The selected photo for today is a shot of both the Kaminarimon Gate and The Asakusa Cultural Tourist Center. The picture captures the similarity of the short vertical strips with horizontal beams yet the contrast in terms of architectural language, style, era of construction as well as purpose. The Asakusa Cultural Tourist Center is designed and built by Kengo Kuma and has a warm and welcoming feel to it thats to the incorporation of wood in its design. The roof featured a look-out point where you can capture the iconic buildings and structures of Tokyo.
The day proceeded as we visited the Tokyo International Forum, although we were or were not distracted by the Flea Market that was happening at the plaza on the side of the Tokyo International Forum.
After Lunch, we headed towards Le Corbusier’s Museum of Western Art. The museum itself was a piece of art, with designs that allowed the natural light to shine in without any glare, the way it was diffused almost made it feel like it was our modern-day LED.
With our minds thoroughly immersed in the piece upon pieces of art we saw and appreciated (some) we made our way to our next stop Ameyoko Street to experience the night scene of Tokyo as well as to grab ourselves some dinner and call it a day.
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