I braved the cold and the Tokyo Subway (the kind with the trains, not the other kind!) to visit a temple in the Asakusa area yesterday afternoon. This area was a much older section of Tokyo than the places that I usually get to hang out in - the temple itself dates back to the 12th Century - and I encountered a good number of Japanese tourists getting there incense and holy water prescriptions filled. That is, they were pouring the water over their hands and rubbing the smoke from the incense all over their bodies.
The temple itself is surrounded by small market stalls - selling all manner of things, from modern toys to Japanese calligraphy to candies and shoes. There seemed to be lots of shoe shops in the area.
Anyway, this is the first time I've used the Tokyo subway on my own and it turned out to be a very painless experience. Not least because it turned out that the station outside my hotel was on the line that went directly to the Asakusa station, meaning I didn't even have to switch trains!
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