and headed out to the Ginza-a big shopping district. We went to Mitsukoshi-the big department store in Japan and picked out hand towels and handkerchiefs. 
The Japanese are super eco-friendly and so in their bathrooms they do not provide towels or dryers to dry your hand after washing. Instead everyone carries around their own personal hand towel in their purses or pockets to dry their hands. I was so amazed by how clean Tokyo is. For as large as it is, I don't remember seeing any litter, graffiti, or anything the whole time we were there. (Although we did see a rat in one of the subway stations.) But really they are so painstakingly clean, even when it is not convenient. There are very few trash cans available for public use. So usually, people will just carry any trash they have home with them. There huge into recycling too. If you do see any public trash areas, they have recycling categories on them. So it was amazing to see such a huge, but clean city. After we picked out our hand towels and hankies we went to the basement of Mitsukoshi which is a whole other department store for food. They had all sorts of it and in the most beautiful displays. They had fruit displayed as though it were precious gems and honey that looked like it was some sort of high-end cosmetic line. (Of course looking at the prices you may not be able to tell the difference) But it was all so amazing and the food that we got was absolutely delicious.We took our food and had a little picnic in a park outside the grounds of the Imperial Palace and then walked around a bit.
Then we took the Subway to Akihabara and went to a huge electronics store called Yodabashi. Talk about sensory overload. The store was eight floors of every high-tech gadget or device that you could ever possibly want or imagine. We found some DVDs and went home to have a relaxing evening of watching them.
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