How about I title by date? Yeah, that sounds good. I’ve heard that I have a couple new readers for this trip, so hello and welcome!
Unfortunately, no photos of Nik for this post. Nik woke up super early around 5am and went by himself to a fish market that Sean and I had little interest in going to at that hour. Instead, we got up around 730 and got ready for a walk at 830. We walked for 4 hours by the time we were done and saw a fantastic mix of close neighbourhoods, parks, temples and commercial highrises.
Cherry blossoms are in season and my new lens did a good job! 🙂
A cool Shinto temple that houses the spirits of the Emperor Meiji and his wife.
The actual temple. I clensed myself before entering, but Sean declined.
We met up with Nik and started walking around Shinjuku Gyoen, which was also great.
The gyoen (garden) has a greenhouse, which was nice and warm. Particularly good since it was pretty cold out this day!
We did a ton more, but I’m going to leave this post here for now since it’s pretty big and we’ll get into the later afternoon and evening in a bit!
We visited the emperors’s shrine as well. Were you impressed with the barrels of saki and wine on display? Glad that the cherry blossoms are in bloom, something that Ming missed in our travels there.
I love that I’m posting this at 10 pm, and you’re commenting at 6 am. No one else I know is up yet. 🙂
The sake and wine were very impressive, as was the temple. Looking forward to more of that!
Yes, it took me an hour to get around to reviewing the blog. Keep up with the date headers and Tokyo enjoyment!
Gorgeous photos! It reminds me that I have to get up to UBC before cherry blossom season is over.