Permission from above

Permission from above

I head for Ueno where my hotel is and having stashed my main pack in a locker (couldnt find one at the main station otherwise would have stayed and visited the Imperial Palace grounds before going to Ueno, the palace is only open to visitors twice a year, yesterday as the Emperors Birthday and 2nd of January)
I go and visit Asakusa (Sansoji) Temple, very impressive place, I request access to the main hall for prayer, I am refused "members only", I pop round the side and take a look and there is a notice for tourists saying there is special ceremony. I go round the other building and return later, I am still interested, so may be there is signal from above to visit. I go by the entrance next to the kiosk manned by the chap who refused my. meanwhile he gets a call (from above?) and his bhack is turned, I slip off the boots and head for the reas sanctum where the statue of Bodhisatva Kanon is kept, at the same time he heads towards a back office and his route is across from mine but he is otherwise occupied. I go to the rear prayer area where another woman is in devotional state, pay my respects, stay a few minutes and make my exit. Pretty happy with myself I also try out one of their fortune telling devices where you shake this box of sticks and pull one out of a hole in the box, this gives you a number, there are hundreds of boxes with nubers on them in front of you and you take out a piece of paper from the relevent box based on the number you got. Mine happens to be Good Fortune, basically all my trouble over! Yippee.