Tokyo food journey: Arakawa To-den

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Arakawa To-den

Early in the morning, we went to grab some Nagasaki chanpon and udon for breakfast.

After that, we grabbed lunch at Yayoi-ken.

Mummy and daddy happy to be exploring a different side of Tokyo.

It's great to have someone help us take a proper family pic~

The ponds and lakes always look super green during summer.

The one day pass that gives you unlimited rides on the Arakawa To-den. Totally worth it as it costs only 400 yen.

The other side of the ticket looks like this. You need to scratch the date and show it to the train conductor every time you board.

This is such a beautiful place.

It's nice that on the day that we visited, there was a guy playing a traditional Japanese musical instrument there too to add on to the feel of the place.

Children playing in the water to try to escape the hot summer heat.

So pretty~

We also went up a free observatory in the area and got a different view of the city from the one before.

On the ground floor of the tower, there were sections set up for people to fold paper cranes and I decided to try and fold one too. Luckily, I succeeded.

Soo pretty~

Mum and dad pose with an old steam locomotive.

Dad pretending to be the conductor.

After that, we dropped by a takoyaki place for some snack. It was the first time I tried akashiyaki (明石焼き) which is a small round dumpling made of an egg-rich batter and octopus. You dip them into dashi before eating and it was soooo good!