"Your linen robe will turn green."

On Monday we took an actual tour that skimmed over the usual suspects - Tokyo Tower:

The outside of the Imperial Palace:

Drive-by Ginza and Akihabara, and a little time in Asakusa. There we liked so much we came back the next day - there are far more sights than can be seen in one, hundreds of souvenir stalls, and the Senso-ji temple:

Here are the gods of thunder and wind:

Here is Mama under a giant sandal. We don't know either:

Here is Mama with a statue of a tanuki, or racoon-dog:

There is also a picture of me under this lantern, but because I am the one writing the blog and choosing the pictures it will remain hidden on my cellphone. Muwhahaha

Mama and I both had our fortunes told by omikuji, where for 100 yen you can shake a metal tube until a wooden stick slides out. There's a number on the stick, and you find the appropriate drawer out of hundreds. There's a slip of paper with either a good or bad fortune written on it - the latter you tie to a nearby rack and leave it behind when you go home. I got a bad one that said I "would think of bad things will drinking" so mama insisted I retry until I got a good one. Even then, we're not sure about the good points of my "linen robe turning green."