Day 15 - Mar 6 2010 - Saturday in Ueno

Day 15 - Mar 6 2010 - Saturday in Ueno, Tokyo, Japan

Ueno is only two trainstops away from where we are living by Kanda Station. Not only are the famous Art Museums and Zoo located in Ueno park, the local motorcycle shops are up there... I slept in until around 10am and then got cleaned up and grabbed some local breakfast before taking the train up to Ueno... I got up there around noon and walked around for 6 hours exploring the area... it was raining just hard enough it was wise to use an umbrella... eventually around 4pm it stopped... Days like this I'm glad I have a tiny tiny apartment... If I was put up in large comfortable crib, I would have probably just stayed around the house all day watching movies. lounging around and not doing anything productive... Tokyo is a city that must be explored. It's a very public city and as witnessed by my pics and video, extremely clean. You are never further than a few steps from a convenient beverage either from a convenient vending machine or a convenient store. I have yet to find one city block without a convenient store in the central tokyo district, some having two or three. I will need to go back to Ueno Park and spend some quality time in the museums. I'm not a huge zoo guy so I doubt I'll make it there... I mean, I don't visit the prisoners in our penitentiary system back home, why should I visit the criminal animals? Should we really spend so much money keeping the criminal animals alive when we obviously have a very efficient way to dispose of them? :P

So look for more pics of this area in the future... When Jen comes to visit this summer I'll send her back up here to enjoy this area when I'm working.

Also, my friend Greg and my wife Jennifer were born on this day and will celebrate their birthdays after I goto sleep as they are 15-17 hours behind my timezone... March 6th was rainy but fun... I hope everyone gets to enjoy it!



smugmug pics here