Easter was a day of sight-seeing in Tokyo for us. The rain certainly doesn't seem to deter the Japanese and it was a sea of umbrellas wherever we went. We started our tour in Harajuku, a shopping district aimed mostly at teens and young adults.
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| This pedestrian only street had many shopping stalls but it was so crowded that it was hard to stop and look at anything. |
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| We made our way over to Togo shrine and walked through the garden. |
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| We made it to the shrine where there was supposed to be a flea market but apparently our old guidebook was too outdated on that information. |
We then headed back to the train station and took it across Tokyo to Ueno park, home of hundreds of cherry trees and the Ueno zoo. After eating at an Indian restaurant along the nearby shopping alley, we headed into the park.
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| We started out our walk towards the temple and boat pond. |
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| A certain type of cherry tree was very vibrant in color. |
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| Many of the cherry trees were starting to drop their blossoms already. |
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| We walked around the boat pond thinking that today was not so great of a day to take a paddle boat ride. |
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| Next we went to Ueno zoo |
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| T and I went on the little zoo monorail - he got to sit up front! |
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| photo-op |
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| The pandas were pacing the whole time we saw them - it seems they were not so happy about the rain |
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| We saw a large brown bear scratching his back on the wall |
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| A pagoda in the zoo |
We then headed back out into the park and got some dinner at the food stands down by the pond. All the lanterns started lighting up for the cherry festival, and we saw many more cherry festival picnicers. This practice, which I mentioned in my earlier post, is called Hanami.
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| On the train ride home - Abby cuddles her new panda bear. |
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| The boys play on their electronics. |
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