japanographia.com » park http://japanographia.com An Englishman on Japan Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:21:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Crikey… I’m in freaking Tokyo http://japanographia.com/2009/04/crikey-im-in-freaking-tokyo/ http://japanographia.com/2009/04/crikey-im-in-freaking-tokyo/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:02:03 +0000 John Noel http://japanographia.com/?p=59
  • Hanami in Ueno
  • Hanami in Ueno
  • Hanami in Ueno
  • Hanami in Ueno
  • Festivities
  • Cherry blossoms in Ueno
  • Cherry blossoms in Ueno
  • Down the main Ueno park strip
  • Festivities in Ueno
  • Sake barrels
  • Rain and cherry blossoms
  • Ueno at night
  • Ueno at night

    • And these keyboards are very strange to type on, I accidentally hit the Japanese key a short while ago an the level of panic I felt when I couldn’t change it back was great. I also keep missing the shift key but that’s likely because of my lack of coordination at the moment.

    Won’t write a huge epic rundown of what happened so in short: journey was fine, planes delayed slightly but not by much. Manchester terminal one security is like one of the circles of hell described by Dante, an utterly dehumanising experience. SAS flights are just like every other really but I managed to sleep somewhat. Landed and met up with the tour leader and a couple of others from the group, got straight into my room so had a shower and felt slightly more human. Went over to Ginza and had a wander around (read: got lost) and then headed to Ueno park for some Hanami. The park was packed but everyone was having such a good time it was hard not to get swept up in it all. Managed to get some tea and met up with the two from before again and went to Ueno again for some night shots, shame it was raining a bit. Got to sleep at nine, slept pretty much straight through till six, no sign of my aeroplan throat this morning.

    Now, to Akiba and Harajuku!

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