What Happens When My Wife Takes Me on a “WILD” Tokyo ADVENTURE?

What Happens When My Wife Takes Me on a “WILD” Tokyo ADVENTURE?

With family visiting we took a day trip down to Tokyo. With my phone broken my wife had been promoted to navigator for this trip. With my wife planning the trip we were off to explore the not so wild side of Japan.

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We started by taking a bus from Mashiko to Akihabara Station. Once we got to Tokyo we stopped at Denny’s to eat breakfast. It was filled with tourists and my brother in law got to be entertained by a group of American tourists trying to be the meme about American tourists.

After getting breakfast we took a train to Shibuya Station. Shibuya Station is huge and one of the buisest train station in the world for commuters. It is not an easy place to navigate. Every pervious time I was the navigator and my wife got upset it took so long to get to the statue of Hachiko. This time my wife was the navigator, could not find the statue, nearly had a breakdown and handed me her phone to navigate.

Eventully we got to the statue of Hachiko. Hachi was a famous dog in Japan. He is famous for going to Shibuya every day waiting for his master Hidesaburō Ueno. Hidesaburo Ueno died when lecturing at Tokyo Imperial Univeristy. For the rest of his life Hachiko lived with Yaeko Sakano, Ueno’s partner, and went to Shibuya Station waiting for professor Ueno.

Over time Hachiko became famous and a regular site at Shibuya Station. He eventually became a national sensation when Hirokichi Saito wrote an article about him. Hirokichi Saito was the founder of Japanese Dog Preservation Society (Nihon Ken Hozonkai) and a former student of Ueno.

After looking at the statue we went to Shibuya Scramble Crossing, the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world. After crossing we got snacks at a place my wife knew. After that we walked towards Meji Shrine.

Like every time I have gotten to Meji Shrine my wife decided we need to get on the train and go to Sensō-ji. So yes we did not go to the world’s most religious site to go see the other contender for most visited religious site.

We walked around the Nakamise-dōri, shopping street, and surrounding market before going into the temple. Senso-ji is Tokyo’s oldest temple with the official establishment being in 645.

My wife loves Senso-ji and after we went into the temple we traveled back to Akihabara Station to get a bus back to Mashiko.