After that I headed to Asakusa and met up with the family at Sensoji Temple which is Tokyo's oldest temple. There were plenty of people there taking photos of the large lantern hanging from the Kaminarimon "Thunder Gate" at the front of the Nakamise-dori street approach to the temple.
Outside of the temple we were lucky to witness the Kinryu no mai or Golden Dragon Dance which is the main event at the Honzon Jigen-e ceremony celebrating the day Shokanzeon Bosatsu, the deity of enshrined in Sensoji Temple, manifested (jigen) to the world in 628 in the form of a golden dragon descending from the sky, creating overnight a grove of a thousand pines - a symbol of the wordly benefit of a rich harvest. The dance is named after Mt. Kinryu-zan, the honorific name prefixed to Sensoji Temple.
Afterwards we headed to Shibuya and I hit up the Taito Station Games arcade. Filled with smoke, video games and some of the craziest skilled players you'll ever see, it was a typical arcade but spread over two levels. The basement was dark and there were heaps of games but sadly no Street Fighter which I was willing to get whipped at by a local Japanese player.
The ground level arcade is more of the same but this time a lot brighter and filled with a lot more prize machines filled with stuffed toys and anime figurines.
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