Kitchen ware town - Mar 4

  Once again, Sean worked all day, and was busy tonight. Dave and I started off the day by arranging a reservation for lunch with Sean and 2 of his friends tomorrow. This required the services of two girls at the front desk, a lot of checking with the translation program on the computer (plus sign language - a cutting motion with index and middle fingers of both hands to indicate "crab", etc), 3 phone calls to the restaurant, printing out of menus and quite an expenditure of time for everyone involved. I let Sean know we had successfully reserved (a table, no less, rather than tatami mats). It turns out that a third friend is also coming; Sean said to leave things as they are - it will likely be easier to change things in person tomorrow when we arrive.
Dave and I then rewarded ourselves with a Starbucks break (where we met ladies from England and Australia) before going to the Post Office. The Post Office is the most effective place to use the ATM with an international debit card, and we wanted more cash before we begin our tour.
From the bank we carried on a few blocks to Kappabashi, the kitchen ware street. Blocks and blocks lined on both sides of the street with a variety of kitchen ware and restaurant supply stores - dishes, metal good, sign boards, etc. We had fun looking at things, and bought some chopsticks (small, unbreakable, easily transported).
During our walk we found Google Maps to be very helpful, coupled with the portable Rental Wi-Fi we got for the month we are here. It found the Post Office for us, and made sure we never lost our hotel.
After a late lunch Dave had a nap. For dinner we went to a local sushi restaurant, and had a lot of nigiri (red tuna, crab, scallop, red snapper, salmon) plus a couple of hand rolls (cucumber and blue fin tuna) each. Now we are both stuffed and happy. I took photos from our rooftop terrace in the afternoon and in the evening today. Here they are.