Late Thursday afternoon we took part in a ritual of post-modern madness after surfacing from the Shibuya subway exit. I felt it was a way of balancing Japanese extremes. A few days into our trip we hiked to a deserted mountain temple and yesterday, towards the end of our journey, we joined the welter of humanity piling…
Day: May 1, 2025
Map of the day
Grubb has mentioned how phenomenal public transportation is in Tokyo. Before we realized the ease with which we’d be able to zip around, we started mapping all the places we thought we’d like to go and organize our day around places that were relatively close to each other. Threw that idea out the window. Here…
Imperial greenery
The interior of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo is off limits to the public, The inner grounds can be visited by joining the official tour. Only offered twice a day in Japanese with English audioguides available. The application process for the tour must be completed at least four days ahead but you’ll be lucky to…
A burger bag becomes a tree
Today we tubed all four points of the compass in our Tokyo circuit without missing a beat. It seemed like every time we figured out which subway line to take to our destination we were barely finished descending the stairs before the train appeared. In one instance the doors were closed as we approached and the conductor…