Ueno Zoo And the National Museum of Tokyo

Konbachiwa minna san!

Another day passed, which means another day less here in Tokyo.

Today we ate breakfast at a closeby cafe (they have lovely sandwhices and caffe mocchas) before we headed off for Shinjuku station. That's the closest and biggest station from where we live, and so that's where we go to take all the connecting trains. And today it bore off to Ueno and Ueno park. Ueno park is the Hyde Park of Japan, only it's bigger and there's a lot more to see there. We didn't get to see all there was, though, because we headed off to Ueno Zoo first thing.

It was really fun to go there, and it was HUGE! It took us about half the day to see everything there was and to walk around the whole place. It was much more interesting than any other zoo I've been to, because they had a lot of animals I've never really seen before such as Japanese mountain monkeys and raccoon dogs.

After a quick lunch we then headed of to one of Ueno park's many museums, the Tokyo National Museum. It was a gigantic building built in Western Style filled with many of Japans most valued treasures. We saw a lot of beautiful handcrafts and art, and it's amazing to see how skilled and advanced this old culture was. Japanese women even had cosmetic boxes in the 13th century! Fancy that!

When we had seen our fill of old artifacts we headed bacl to Shinjuku and walked around there a bit before returning to our hotel. We'll have to get up early tomorrow, cause we're going to a shop where there's normally a line to get in, and we're gonna go on a shopping spree in Harajuku. It's also Trude's birthday tomorrow, so... yay for that! :D

~Thea (and not so much Trude, cause she's occupied with reading a book at the moment n__~)