DAY THREE: * Asakusa Sensoji temple all to myself at 7am * fat friendly ginger & white cat, Asakusa-jinja shrine * Nakamise-dori: hunt for 'green spheres' & black fan (those responsible for this, you know who you are) * Philippe Starcke's Asahi Beer Super Dry Hall building * taking even longer & thicker skin: finding the correct vending machine for the Odaiba Yurikamome monorail one-day pass * Tokyo Big Sight * unwitting shoppers walking right smack into Shower Tree 35 (world's tallest indoor fountain), Tokyo Fashion Town (source of Kogepan chocolate marshmallows, for those who got to eat them) * National Museum of Emerging Science & Innovation * Pet City @ Palette Town: bats, owls, prairie dogs, squirrels & lots more exotics on sale in addition to the usual puppies, kittens, hamsters & birds * Venus Fort * DECKS Tokyo Beach *

	room 211, Juyoh Hotel, 2-15-3 Kiyokawa, Taito-ku, Tokyo: sometimes I wonder if I was small enough for the room or the room was big enough for me		big fat lantern, Hozomon Gate, Sensoji Temple, Asakusa, Tokyo
	big cat (above) & small cat (below), Asakusa-jinja shrine		taruzake (cypress wood casks of sake)
	Sensoji Temple, Asakusa		laziest way to eat: floating chopsticks, restaurant window along Nakamise-dori, Asakusa
	bamboo rake, Asakusa		Tokyo Big Sight, Odaiba [ architect: AXS Satow Inc ]
	"Saw, Sawing": sculpture by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, built to earthquake safety regulations, Tokyo Big Sight		Fuji TV building, Odaiba [ architect: Tange Kenzo ]
	oden stew or steamboat? diagram of cell structure, Biology exhibit, Museum of Emerging Science & Innovation, Odaiba		GEO-COSMOS exhibit with real-time display of global cloud patterns, Museum of Emerging Science & Innovation - incredible place that showcases stuff like the Super-Kamiokande cosmic neutrino detector, earthquake detection systems, deep sea exploration & nanotechnology in both Japanese & English

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