This morning we visited the Tsukihi fish market, the largest wholesale fish market in Japan.

Lots of sights, smells and people. Was very entertaining.

Bonito fish dried above and flaked below, these are delicious sprinkled onto dishes

Dried scallops – the Japanese dry everything and anything and they package almost anything and everything!

Dried, pressed squid anyone. Complete with comical drawing. The Japanese on the whole seem to have a great sense of humour and take any opportunity to have a giggle or laugh. (Probably at our expense lol)

We then went to a sushi restaurant and were taught to make sushi, the chef was very entertaining.

Couldn’t get the above photos in order, never mind.

Then we were off again to the Tokyo Quilt show, more jostling and making exciting purchases.

These two women were doing a kind of super fine trapunto work their stitches were minute and it was all done by hand, mind blowing stuff.

When we left the show it was dark and we walked through another illumination garden, so lovely (you may notice that the ponds were beginning to ice over, so cold).

As Deb and I had missed the tour bus back to the hotel we negotiated the train system and made it back to the hotel without incident. This was the crowd at the train station near our hotel – busy Saturday night.

Once again we didn’t go out with the others and found a little Tonkatsu restaurant and enjoyed another great meal.

I found this amazing coat at the Quilt show, made with beautiful silk dyed with persimmon and mud! It was very light and soft to wear, but at $2,300 NZD, I had to say no, I got some lovely silks and a ton of photos of the coat to maybe make myself one.

I will post photos of the Quilt show once I get home and can do it on my desktop rather than the iPad, much quicker and easier