Discover The Magical Wonders Of Tokyo – The Ultimate World Cruise

Visit the Buddha Temple Sensoji, and the traditional shops and arcades. East Kobe beef from a local street market. Explore a Shinto shrine and see a wedding party, Stroll along the internationally known Takashita Dori Street, the center for Japanese youth culture and fashion. Witness the worlds busiest pedestrian crossing at the Shibuya crossing.

welcome to around the world in 274 days
Bob Allen
travels what do you do when you’re in
Tokyo for a day we’ll come along and
find
out our first stop was in the uh Seno G
Buddhist temple in Tokyo uh it’s Tokyo’s
largest established Temple and it’s one
of its most
significant um the structure of the
temple complex include includes a main
hall and a five-story pagota and large
Gates it’s the most widely visited
religious site in the world with over 30
million visitors
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annually the temple was destroyed on
March 10th 1945 during a firebombing
raid on Tokyo during World War II but it
was rebuilt in the
1950s the rebuilding of the temple was
Pres pered perceived as a symbol of
rebirth and Peace by the Japanese
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people here we see the traditional
incense burning which is a way of
sending your prayers up to heaven and to
uh have uh the spirit surround you
there’s also an interesting part this is
where they cleanse themselves they
cleanse wash one hand hand and the other
and then they wash their mouth or their
lips um we see that in many religions uh
that we have encountered on our world
Cruise simply put Buddhists do not
worship the Buddha although they rever
him they bow and they
pray to him to help them Enlighten them
so they can overcome the challenges but
the strength they believe comes from
within these people here are are uh uh
referencing the Buddha and making
offerings uh to help them get their mind
and thoughts centered and improving
their
lives actually throwing coins into that
metal collector a good then you tie it
to
the having one fortunes told in Japan
seems to be very big we saw many fortune
tellers on the having streets this lady
here puts in 100 yen and then she shakes
that uh that uh jar and a little stick
will come out that has writing on it and
she matches what’s written on the stick
with one those drawers and each side and
inside of each one of those drawers is a
fortune and she pulls it out that is her
Fortune I reading the sign on the rack
just to the left and it says that if you
don’t like the fortune you got you tie
that piece of paper with your fortune
onto that rack and then I guess you’re
free to try another
Fortune once you pass the main gate to
the temple you walk into what’s called
nakin Dory Street which is a major
shopping area and it can be very very
crowded here’s Lara buying uh I think it
was something to eat that she bought um
you can see as we first arrived uh the
crowds aren’t too bad but uh upon
leaving it became very very
crowded with Tokyo being the most
populous city in the world with 40
million people it’s easy to see why
there’s lots of
crowds one thing that surprised me that
still in use are Rick
Shaws um in Tokyo here they were for uh
taking people all over the place it’s
kind of fun to watch
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them well you’ll never guess but we are
in
another Street Market with fish parket
after shopping around we decided we’d
have some kobe beef and we found this
little shop and he uh we went in uh
Laura paid for our uh our
meal and then the man threw our little
stick of uh Kobe beef on the grill and
cooked it up for us and that little
piece of Kobe beef cost
$28 but it was sure
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good Laura also found us a crab and
cream
croquet uh that she bought and uh it was
really good
too it’s amazing that uh I think the
majority of of Japanese people and
tourists they use these Street Markets
to do their
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shopping and again because there’s 40
million people living in Tokyo no matter
where you go there’s a crowd
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for dessert we had bought this uh little
cookie um it was warm and it was
shaped like a
fish it didn’t taste like a fish it
tasted like a really good
dessert we are walking to the shinta
shrine shinta have shrines Buddhas have
temples
it’s actually pronounced
Shinto our guide was telling us the
Shinto
shrines have more of a a natural look
they worship nature whereas the
Buddhists are very
colorful and uh this is definitely the
case here
very
Earthly once again they have a place
here to wash and to purify before going
into the shrine
itself sh was a religion that originated
in
Japan
um it’s a indigenous religion and is
looked at as a natural religion uh or
nature
religion um it evolves around
Supernatural
entities um called
kamies Kami Kami is believed to inhabit
all things including forces of nature
prominent landscape
locations um and these have uh
households will have shrines and family
shrines and public
shrines uh the latter are staffed by
priest uh Who oversee offerings of food
and
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drink there was a ceremony going on in
the shrine and so we were not allowed to
go up there and
photograph um but after uh a few minutes
of doing a little exploring I found out
what that ceremony
was and here it there are some people up
there
worshiping U but the ceremony that was
going on was
this a wedding and there’s the bride and
her family and I got a picture of her
sitting down with well there’s the groom
right next to her under her left and
here’s some other photos of it it’s kind
of nice to
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see tasida street is a very popular and
famous street in
Tokyo and uh it is a very crowded Street
and as we walk down through here there’s
very very many there’s a lot of trendy
uh uh shops and
restaurants um and it is just a mad
house you can see some of the strange
costumes that people wear and will buy
especially some of the young people but
it was a fun thing to walk
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through love working my way through a
crowd it’s actually a fascinating place
our last stop was the Shaya Crossing
this is the world’s
busiest uh uh
crosswalk and uh here we are down on the
ground floor here kind of working our
way through the crowd and I imagine at
night with all those signs is quite
spectacular here where uh you can see
this s the crowd surge as the lights
change and everybody
kind of disappears off that direction
and then uh a few seconds later you’ll
see the surge coming towards us as
people from one side of the street are
coming the other way and uh we’re going
get a bird ey view of it in just a
minute
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found a place in uh one of the buildings
about up about seven stories and we were
able to observe the uh the changing of
the traffic lights and the surge of uh
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pedestrians it’s a mad house down there
and this wasn’t even the busiest time of
day so but it was fast ating and
interesting to watch
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so we’re on top of this building where
we were looking at the busiest uh
crosswalk in the world and you sign your
names our initials on the
wall which I did but I don’t know if
anyone will be able to read it cuz
there’s so many others on there but I’ve
left my
Mark we had to work our way
U across the uh and through the crowds
one more time to get to our our van so
we could uh head on out and head back to
the
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