Asakusa Sensoji Temple

So now we made it to the Sensoji Temple. This is the temple itself. This is already a very popular tourist spot, but with it being a Saturday it's even more popular. As well as the temple itself there is also a street of vendors selling touristy stuff to do with the temple and general tourist stuff for showing you'd been to Japan.

Map of the area.

Some doors from outside the temple.

And inside was very cool. The ceiling had 4 painting in it. These are the first two I could take a photo of.

The shrine in the temple. This is the closest I could get as it was very popular to look at (and even then I used the zoom on my camera).

The other two paintings on the ceiling.

Looking out of the temple at the temple gate.

Another view of the temple as I exited it.

The temple gate or the Hozo-mon Gate.

A cauldron for burning messages or wishes or something like that. I didn't do that, but you can deposit a coin elsewhere and turn of container that drops out a number on a stick, then you take a message from the number drawer and it tells a fortune. I did that and got number 27. Then after reading it you tie in on one of many racks and that's it. I'm not sure on the significance, but I did that :)

This is the closest shot I got all day of the new Tokyo Skytree. It's about complete and set to open on the 22nd of this month (that night I leave Japan). It's 630-odd feet tall, almost double the size of the Tokyo tower (which is about 330-odd feet tall).

Another part of the temple

At the gate there are these two big sandals.

And two guardian deities.

And two big lanterns flanking a bigger lantern.

And that was the tour of the Asakusa Sensoji Temple. Next we went to lunch at a restaurant at the Seaside Hotel near the Takeshiba Pier. Nice western style food with a view. And then from there we went down to the pier and went on a cruise around the bay.