A long way down

Trip Start Mar 14, 2006

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Trip End Mar 15, 2007

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Flag of Japan Tokyo, Japan
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Started off slow this morning and so headed to near by Ueno Park one of Tokyo's biggest. They were in the middle of setting up for the Cherry Blossom festival with a few trees already in full bloom resulting in a throng of Japanese crowding round them with their camera phones snapping away. The park itself was not that great really with more concrete than anything else as well as a good number of Tokyo's discarded homeless but it did house the Tokyo National Museum which I went for a gander around to get my cultural fill for the day.

In the evening I scooted off to Shinjuku again to see a site I had planned on seeing before arriving in Japan, Tokyo's skyline at night. At the Tokyo Metropolitan building you can go up to the top floor of either tower where there are observatories to get a panoramic view over the city. Looking out (and down) at the city during the day was impressive but as with most things in Tokyo became even more so after dark when the city came alive with blinking lights and of course lots and lots of neon.

Back at the hotel, wound down by watching a little Japanese TV which despite not understanding a thing was still far more entertaining than anything ITV have shown in the last year.

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