07/19/2008 Time is running out and there are too many things I would do, Shirahama approaches to the departure and return to Tokyo will be just the time to close the bags and go to Tsukiji in the early morning.
direction where there is Ueno Ameyoko Arcade, fascinating market among the oldest in Tokyo. The stalls wind beneath the railroad tracks, on the one hand clothes and shoes, on the other hand various kinds of food, from dried fish and spices imported fruit and vegetables, all accompanied by the usual call of a loud voice traders. We stop lightning in a restaurant under the railway and then resume the tour, including fish fillets, tuna roe, ugly shoes and vintage records by artists nipponiche cotton. Quick
around Ueno-koen, Ueno Park, a pleasant place where the Japanese spend their free time, full of museums, temples and lakes where you can rent small boats.
In this peaceful park is home to hundreds of homeless and do so silently, almost invisible if not for their little blue tents, trying to retain some dignity. The tents are arranged in a row and the outside of each can see the bins for recycling and laundry hanging ... it is mostly men who have lost their jobs and were not able to reintegrate into community life. The homeless do not live here, this time I have seen many more even sleep on the streets, under bridges in Shinjuku, wrapped in their boxes. I did not understand if it's common to pass the curtain and to regulate their stay in Ueno, in any case, this thing I was very impressed.
Again we go by subway to Asakusa, destination Kappabashi-dori, the street of the household. Despite
Asakusa neighborhood is a tourist because of the temple of Senso-ji retains a very traditional spirit that is felt in the streets rather than nell'affollatissima Kaminarimon-dori.
After a short walk and I Gu - finally alone - come to the path of household. Here I acknowledge the small ramen restaurant where I had been alone and I was struck by the free burp practiced by customers ... Too bad it had already eaten!
I'll be back in the shop of the old lady next door and find the same bowls ... seven years before we enter into other shops, including knives and ceramic teapots, the prices here are very low because they are the shops where they buy the inhabitants of neighborhood.
We enter a tiny shop where no fan and a very old man sitting on the stairs and greeted with a nod of the head. There are rectangular plates and bowls beautiful colors, I choose carefully a couple for each type and form, are covered with dust and cost no more than one euro and fifty each. Once I picked them support on a free meal, the old ladies pulls out a beautiful wooden abacus makes the accounts, written in Japanese and then shows me the value: duemilaottocento yen, really very little since I go out with two heavy bags full of pottery ! The sun beats down and strangely there is not a vending machine nearby. We enter in a street perpendicular to arrive at the temple. Here is a pseudoartigianale market and among the various banks we find one that sells bags! Yeah, to return to Italy need an extra suitcase, the purchases are beginning to be too many! Here is a wonderful trolley that can pass as hand luggage and hold almost everything we bought, except it tends to roll in rice paper, an umbrella and some things ... Slip readily bulky bags to pack dishes and bowls we head to Senso-ji, who unfortunately has already closed. As customary we bathe with incense smoke that seems to be healing and yen per cent decide to consult the oracle out of the temple. How it works, put the coin, shake a wooden box that has a small hole from which a stick. On it there is a number, you open the drawer and take the corresponding response form. If it is positive to take away with you, if is negative it is bound in a special binder that will neutralize the bad luck. I take mine, but came out number 99 is written in giapu and do not understand anything. After several attempts to stop someone to help me without making me understand, finally found a girl who speaks English and I decipher the magical note. Wow! I say it's the best he could get out, the best of luck in love, health, work, to life! We hope this is true, I'm sure I bring home a note! Then by chance I look back ... the response of the oracle was translated into English!
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