PERU-BOLIVIA: An other day in Tokyo

One of the tourist s favorite spots in the morning in Tokyo is the Tsukiji Market (築地市場), the biggest fish and wholesale market in the world.

The market handles more than 400 different types of seafood from cheap seaweed to the most expensive caviar, and from tiny sardines to 300 kg tuna and whale. Overall more than 700,000 metric tons of seafood are handled every year at the three seafood markets in Tokyo, with a total value in excess of 600 billion yen. The number of registered employees is around 60,000 to 65,000, including wholesalers, accountants, auctioneers, company officials, and distributors.

Surprisingly prices are quite high compared to European prices, probably the quality is slightly different. For a set a sushi you easily pay 40 EUR or for small piece of tuna 15 EUR.

Walking on from the fish market direction Tokyo station, you have to cross Ginza, one of the most prestigious shopping districts of Tokyo

There are several department stores and all of the big labels represented, including Matsuya selling Kobe style wagyu beef for 300EUR /kg or Kimonos for 5000EUR.

Ginza is also home to several high class restaurants, the total number of Michelin start in the district is around 30, including a the famous Kojyu sushi restaurant with 3 stars.

Leaving Ginza around Tokyo station there are a lot of high rise buildings accommodating offices of law and accountancy firms.

Just a few steps from Tokyo station you arrive at the Tokyo Imperial Palace (皇居, literally, "Imperial Residence") is the main residence of the Emperor of Japan. It is built on the site of the old Edo Castle. The total area including the gardens is 3.41 square kilometres. During the height of the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the palace grounds were valued by some as more than the value of all the real estate in the state of California as wiki says. Wow...

The East Garden is where most of the administrative buildings for the palace are located and encompasses the former Honmaru and Ninomaru areas of Edo Castle, a total of 210,000 m²

Going out in the evening Shibuya is a nice neighborhood both for shopping and people watching. Shibuya is one of the busiest hubs in Tokyo, also famous about its pedestrian crossing, used by 2500 people on average during one cycle.