(Asakusa Temple main entrance)
 
Once again, the cousin surprised us with this fact. This Asakusa Temple has no major significant history attached to it except it is built for tourists, meant for tourists (what the…). You can safely bet that 80% of visitors are not locals. He said not many Japanese would attend for prayers here since [...]

The next morning, my mate’s cousin drove us to our first tourist spot, Asakusa Temple. We stopped somewhere around the temple area, when I noticed this:
 

(Asahi Beer Headquarters)
  
The cousin said it’s the Asahi Beer’s headquarters in Japan and that funny looking structure is the froth of their beer(?!). If he didn’t tell me that, I [...]

And so, I’m on the way back to Tokyo via Shinkansen again. This time, I picked a Hikari train which has lesser stops and quicker I get to Tokyo unlike last trip I went via a Kodoma train.
During the last ride, I noticed many of the passengers bought these bento boxes from the train stations and had their [...]