Breakfast is served, ohayo gozaimasu!

Today, after our 4am wake up, Nick and I headed down to the Tsujiki Fish Market for breakfast. Let's just start out by saying, FANTASTIC! It's all about chef's choice, and the fish was ridiculously fresh. They were cleaning fish right behind the sushi bar. We were the only non-Japanese braving the bar, most others seemed to go upstairs to an area of tables.

We wandered around Ginza for a while, went to the Sony building and saw their showroom, and tried out some hardcore headphones:


I found it interesting that these things were too big for MY head, much less the typical person here who tends to be much smaller. It'd be like Princess Leia on steroids.

We stopped in a coffee shop to use the restroom and had a couple small drip coffees. I asked whether they took credit cards and the cashier clearly stated her answer of 'NO' while shaking her hand at me with such fury a passer-by would likely assume I'd offered her a dirty syringe.

We hit the proverbial 'wall' of fatigue and headed back to the hotel to rest up before heading out later today.

Now, it's resting time.

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