Day 2 - Ueno, Tokyo 東京

Seems like an age ago now but we were too tired to stand, let alone blog, last night. After the noise and lights of Akihabara we went on to Ueno Park planning to see the park and a couple of Museums. We didn't really realise it was Hanami until we got there so there were loads of people in the park taking pictures of the sakura and generally having a great time.

We walked through the park with the blossom in full bloom, around the lake where Dave managed to get a couple in a boat to give him a thumbs up and also managed to get a girl to shout at him after he took a picture of her picnicking.



When we finally got to the museums they were closed but nevertheless it was a good end to a great, but tiring, day.

Well, not quite the end. Back in Shinjuku we turned the wrong way out of the station, did a massive figure of 8 back to the station, found a hotel that was disguised as ours, and finally got back to our hotel after about an hour. It should have taken 8 minutes. The following morning we found a tunnel at the bottom of the road that leads straight to the station.