Saturday, December 6, 2008

Thanksgiving week - Part 1

We spent 4 days in Tokyo Thanksgiving week, we went so many places in that small space of time, I'm going to break the posts up by location.
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We arrived at the New Sanno on Sunday afternoon and jumped on the subway, headed Meiji-jingu Gaien, I read about it on Blue Lotus and put it at the top of our list; it's a huge park where you'll find Icho Namiki - Gingko Avenue, a street is lined 146 gingko trees that are spectacular in the Fall. We were about a week or so early for their peak color, but it was still very beautiful.
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Heading down Icho Namiki, there is a festival in the park from Nov. 16 - Dec. 14, so it was extra crowded.
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Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, a museum and cultural center
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Escalator fun.

The subway system in Tokyo is amazing, a huge maze of tracks stacked on top of each other, at one point we were 7 stories underground!

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1 comment:

Robin Vistnes said...

You say you aren't doing too much stuff but I beg to differ... while you were in Tokoyo for 4 days over T-giving, I was at work all four days and played a game of football with my family...
Let's compare who is using their time for more cultural experiences...