Tokyo flea market

One of my favourite activities while traveling/in life is going to flea markets, so it's maybe not a surprise that I made sure to go to at least one while I was in Tokyo. This will probably be the first of many flea market posts on this blog.

Early(ish) on a Saturday morning, I set out to catch a train from Komagome.



Saw a couple of cuties about to start their day.



I took the JR loop to the Tokyo Monorail line, and got off at Oikeibajo Mae. There was a lot of interesting stuff going on here: a mix of high rises, canals, wide open water, and horse stables.







As I left the station, this sign assured me I was heading in the right direction.



After a quick once-over, I located some yakitori and takoyaki, which I ate on a curb.





I wish I'd had the nerve to take some better pictures from the less sparse areas of the flea market, but this was the general setup.



Life imitates art.
   

I bought a really beautiful speckled bowl from this man reading a newspaper.



All in all, this was one of the best mornings I had in Japan. I found a lot of cool things (mostly breakables) that I carried around for the rest of my trip. I also found it weirdly easy to bargain with the vendors, despite that not really being a thing in Japan, and despite my extremely limited Japanese.