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Shinjuku

I already told you all about Mother's Day in Tokyo which was Day Two so now I will tell you about Day One in Tokyo, which was actually an evening.  We arrived in Tokyo in the evening because we stopped off in Yokohama for a sushi making class that lasted until about 4:30 p.m. We got to eat all our sushi that we made so we weren't really hungry for dinner at that point.  Tokyo is about a 30 minute train ride from Yokohama so we went straight to our hotel and checked in which had a nice view. We were in the Shiodome area which is a modern, tight cluster of towering high-rise hotels, office buildings and shopping complexes. Our hotel was next to a large Japanese TV station and the view looked straight over at the famous Tsukiji Fish Market that we visited last year during our trip to Japan. (Here's a couple of photos from last year.) Tsukiji Market is known as one of the world's largest fish markets, handling over 2,000 tons of marine products per...