My dad dragged me out to Kamakura to look at some of the temples there. I got to see the large Buddha statue. My impression of it? Impressive for the people of long time ago, but I feel like its been commercialized. Pay so-and-so amount to enter. Its relatively cheap to get in, but still. I suppose it pays the maintenance fees.
For lunch, we ate at a local restaurant. It took forever to get our meals out. I had a hama-toro-don (浜とろ丼) with raw shirasu, which I think might have been the first time I ate them raw. The shirasu looked like they havent been eating anything recently because it didnt look like they had any guts. A hundreds of dead eyes looking at me… Taste wise, it was meh. Definitely not worth the wait and price.
After looking at the daibutsu, we headed back to Shinjuku to visit the Shinjuku Gyoen. I wanted to go look at the greenhouse, but I was overridden by my dad who wanted to go see the lake.
For dinner we went to Sushi-Zanmai in Tsukiji, where the chains owner bought super expensive bluefin tuna fish at the first auction of this year.