Tsukiji tuna auction

One of our bucket list is going to the Tsukiji tuna auction.
Tsukiji is an area famous for it's fish market, and on this October, it's moving to a new area and in the future, the tuna auction might won't be open to public anymore, so MUST GO!

If you heard about Tsukiji tuna auction, you'll know how hard it is to get into it. Although the first batch is at 5.30am (?) but people started queuing up since 1am and it's only limited to 120 people per day.

After ticking the bucket list -go to a concert in Japan-, we decided to go to the tuna auction after that. It was damn tiring as the concert ended at about 10pm, we need to rush back home to change and rush out to catch the last train.
We reached home at about 11pm, showered, packed a bit and went out at 11.15pm HAHA

It was damn risky but we got to catch the last train and reached the area that night,
We spent the night at one of the manga kisa (a place where you can read manga or use the computer), I watched a drama and tried to sleep a bit but GAHHH the guy behind me was smoking and I got red eyes and runny nose thanks to him =/

Heaven for Otaku

We left the place at about 2.30am, to queue up for the tuna auction.
We were wrong thinking that we were early, as the first batch 60 people is already full, and we almost missed the second batch PHEWWW (3hours earlier we're still considered late!)

Crowd for the tuna auction

We waited there for the 3 hours, went around the area with the chill breeze that smelled like sea and fish in the summer morning, squeezed with the foreigners from all around the world, listened to one of the workers at the tuna auction there sharing his story and tried to nap a bit.

Finally it's our turn to go in to watch THE tuna auction. It felt unreal as I saw lots of videos and documentaries about it and now I am here! I kyaaa-ed countless time inside XD

Inside looks like this!!!

It lasted not long but it's totally worth the wait.
We then queued up for another hour for breakfast at there, we had don although people mostly came for the nigiri.

Traditional shops at Tsukiji

my breakfast!!!

After breakfast, we went straight to Asakusa.
On the train to there we dead slept HAHA (one of the Japanese 'skills' is sleeping on train and never overslept LOL)
We were so early so there's totally no crowd at there.

Hi Kaminarimon!!!

you do this to get good luck (?)

We went around a bit and when all the shops are open, we had dango and matcha at a famous local shop then when for a shop famous for its melon pan (which Yama came before!)

dango and matcha looks simple but DAMN NICE!

The melon pan is heavenly nice too!!!

After two hectic days we can't stand anymore and decided to just go home and sleep.
All the way back we were dozing off on the train and I dead slept once I reached home HAHA

We then moved to another place to stay that night, near Shinjuku and it was so nice as it has two conbini just in front (and one of it even have place to sit!! <--- rare in Japan)
We called for Mcdelivery that night for dinner and even McDonalds in Japan is better!!! Wide range of drinks and also some special menu <3

Ermmm.... we dig in straight after we opened it so this is the only pic I have XD