Week Two - Wait, how much?!

At the end of week two, we've finally defeated jet lag and tried a few more restaurants in the neighborhood... many of which we still can't get over the menu prices.  With the current US Dollar to Japanese Yen exchange rate, it's difficult to finish dinner (for just the two of us) under $50... and we're not even venturing into the fancy places.

But, what has really boggled our minds is the price of some fruit we found at a specialty French grocery store.  Now, first we must say that normal fruit at any grocery store isn't going to run you nearly this much, but we guess there's something special about this particular fruit... we just don't want to pay to find out what.  So, if you look at the pictures below, you'll see the cantaloupe for 7,000 Yen (at the current exchange rate of 1 USD to 76 Yen) that's $92!  And the grapes are the same price!!!  That must be some really good fruit!

The other pictures you see are of the Meiji Shrine and one of it's temple doors in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo.  This is the same place we took the picture of the entrance last week, except we ventured past just the entrance this week.  We braved the heat and humidity, saw how beautiful this shrine is, and learned that it is still used today for many wedding ceremony processions.

More to come next week.  :)