Tsukiji Fish Market

Genesis 1:20-21  "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life. . . .
     And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought fort abundantly, after their kind. . . ."

A few weeks ago, we were in the world's largest train station.
Saturday we went to Tsukiji fish market, the world's largest fish market.

Here are some of our fellow missionaries and me in one of the aisles of the Tsukiji  fish market.  Notice the little truck driving beside us. Most of the aisles are much smaller, loaded with people, and the men on the trucks do not slow down.

 It was pretty crazy to say the least.

This man is probably cutting Tuna, that's what it looked like.

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The fish are delivered at 3 am and the auction goes
from 5-8 in the morning.  It is a closed auction where they
buy the fish for the Sushi bars, etc.  They allow the public
 to come in at 9 am and it is usually cleaned up by 11 am. 
We bought some delicious crab meat and some scallops.

There was every kind of fish and shell fish and anything
else you could imagine or not imagine from the ocean.

Anyone for some delicious Octopus?

A familiar face in the crowd.

Here we are in the subway station posing with a bag full of fish
in front of a beautiful mural ready to go home and eat fish.
Sayonara!

Menu

We like to go to the Tokyo temple on Fridays, and sometimes we have dinner there before the temple session, and the food is really good; I thought you might be interested to see the menu for this month:

9/3	Tue	春巻き	野菜サラダ
		Egg Roll	Vegetable Salad
9/4	Wed	肉味噌素麵	もやしサラダ
		Thin wheat noodles with meat bean paste	Bean-sprouts salad
9/5	Thu	かぼちゃのミートグラタン	ツナﾋﾟｰﾏﾝ
		Meat gratin of pumpkin	Tuna and Green Pepepr
9/6	Fri	ゴーヤチャンプル	わかめサラダ
		Bitter gourd stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables	Seaweed salad
9/7	Sat	鶏のジュース煮	コールスロー
		Chicken boiled with juice	Coleslaw
9/10	Tue	テリヤキチキン	わかめサラダ
		Teriyaki chicken	seaweed salad
9/11	Wed	かぼちゃの煮物	マカロニサラダ
		Simmered pumpkin	Macaroni salad
9/12	Thu	タコライス	もやしサラダ
		Taco Rice	Bean-sprouts salad
9/13	Fri	豚汁	人参サラダ
		Miso soup with pork and vegetables	Carrot Salad
9/14	Sat	海老と茄子のﾁﾘｿｰｽ	もやしサラダ
		Chili sauce of shrimps and eggplants	Bean-sprouts salad
9/16	Mon	カレー/ハヤシ	野菜サラダ
		Curry and rice/ Rice with hashed meat	Vegetable Salad
9/17	Tue	プルコギ	もやしサラダ
		Bulgogi	Bean-sprouts salad
9/18	Wed	チキンブロッコリー	わかめサラダ
		Chicken broccoli	Seaweed salad
9/19	Thu	ゴーヤチャンプル	野菜サラダ
		Bitter gourd stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables	Vegetable Salad
9/20	Fri	かぼちゃのミートグラタン	ツナﾋﾟｰﾏﾝ
		Meat gratin of pumpkin	Tuna and Green Pepepr
9/21	Sat	麻婆豆腐丼	大根サラダ
		Spicy-bean-curd-and-pork bowl	Japanese radish salad
9/23	Mon	カレー/ハヤシ	野菜サラダ
		Curry and rice/ Rice with hashed meat	Vegetable Salad
9/24	Tue	タコライス	人参サラダ
		Taco Rice	Carrot Salad
9/25	Wed	肉じゃが	野菜サラダ
		Simmered meat and potatoes	Vegetable Salad
9/26	Thu	豚汁	わかめサラダ
		Miso soup with pork and vegetables	Seaweed salad
9/27	Fri	テリヤキチキン	マカロニサラダ
		Teriyaki chicken	Macaroni salad
9/28	Sat	海老と茄子のﾁﾘｿｰｽ	いんげんの胡麻和え
		Chili sauce of shrimps and eggplants	kidney bean with sesame dressing

Good video about the Asia North Area

Hi Everybody,

The following is a good link about one of the Quorum of the Twelve, Elder Nelson, and the trip he took to the Asia North Area where we serve.  We also like it because we know several of the great people who are on the video. 

We're posting it now because some of these kinds of videos aren't available to view for very long

http://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/finding-light-truth-and-hope?cid=HPTH090513092&lang=eng


This is a great link too:

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-introduction-videos?cid=HPTH082213083

We hope you all have a great week!

With love,
Elder and Sister Chandler

P.S.  It's been great to have our son, Tim, come through for a couple of days on his way to do some business in Mongolia.  It was so great to see him and go to church with him here. Unfortunately for him, as he was planning on leaving tomorrow, it looks like a huge tropical storm might have him stay an extra day.

Tim and his Dad at the Tokyo City building which looks out over the city.



More of Tokyo

Mt Fuji, baptism, and a rainy Day in Tokyo

Rainy Day in Tokyo

It has been pouring rain for the past hour here in Tokyo and it is a little cooler today.  After Sunday School we rode the subway and train to the Shibuya Chapel to witness the baptism of Shuji Maruhashi.  He is a very friendly man, 70 years of age, and used to be a professional musician.  He plays the piano really well and loves the old American music.  He shared a few thoughts after his baptism about how he hadn't been a good husband or father and was married three times which is very unusual in Japan.  One of his sons came to the baptism.  Shuji said a few words from the pulpit after he was baptized and apologized to his son for not being a good father.  It was quite touching.  It is a miracle to see the change that comes in people's lives when they accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

We have really wonderful missionary couples to serve with here but we all have different jobs so we don't see them throughout the day.  It is nice to be able to get together on weekends and do things.  Yesterday we rode the Shinjuku Highway Express Bus to Mt. Fuji Station 5.  First we took the train to Shinjuku station.  It took about 3 hours by bus after that but much of that was just getting out of Tokyo.  The lower elevations of Mt. Fuji are temperate rain forest with lots of vines and bamboo.  A little higher up it is all evergreen trees.  Just about Station 5 which is at about 7500 feet elevation the tree line ends and you can walk for about 5 miles and reach the top.  We didn't have time to go to the top but we hiked around on the mountain.  It was very misty and cloudy everywhere so we couldn't see much.  There were thousands of hikers there preparing for the overnight climb since the climbing season officially ends in another week.  It is actually just a long walk, nothing technical and almost any one, even a child, can do it.  It was the first time we have been out of the city since we came here.  The little towns, villages, and farms along the way were beautiful. 

We feel perfectly at home here in Tokyo and enjoy our morning walks and doing Rajio Taiso with all of the Japanese people in Arasugawa Park nearby.  They are mostly older people like us and they are very friendly.  By the way, the bus station for the bus to Mt. Fuji is next to Shinjuku train station which is the busiest in the world.  It reaches nearly 4 million people passing through on its busiest days.  Now we have been to the three busiest train stations in the world--Shinjuku, Gare du Nord in Paris, and Waterloo Station in London.

Shuji with the young missionaries

Shuji with the "old"missionaries

All the people at Station 5 on Mt. Fuji

 

Hiking through the mist on Mt. Fuji

Here's Carol proving that we were there

The clouds departed just enough to be able to most of Mt. Fuji from Station 5

The beautiful bus ride on the way home from Mt. Fuji

Shinjuku Station - busiest in the world