After the night flight from Kuala Lumpur and passing the usual controls of passport and luggage (taking out all my dirty clothes from my backpack is something I had to do everytime I travelled outside Japan during the year I lived there), I took the train to Ueno. I arrived there around 9am, and it was too early for checking-in at the hostel, so I left my backpack in a locker and went to visit the area.
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| The Ueno park central lake | Pagoda |
Just after entering the park, and while I bought a coffee from an automatic machine, a Japanese beggar came to me and had me talking for about hour telling me (with a quite limited English) about his opinions of Japan and how (according to him) Japan should open more to the western world, and also how i should start talking with every Japanese girl I saw…
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| Lanterns at the entrance to a temple | “Doris” (traditional doors) at the entrance to a temple |
Once finished the discussion I started walking around the Ueno area, and visiting the temples and monuments of the surroundings. Around noon I started looking for a place to eat, and finally I decided for a small curry restaurant… one of the things that I had missed the most was the japanese curry-rice, and it was as good as I remembered :p
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| Walking around Ueno | |
After lunch I went to the hostel, and after the check-in I went directly to bed to recover some lost sleep. After the siesta I went to Shibuya to have a look and have dinner there. Almost everything was as I remembered, apart from the small Indian restaurant where we used to go quite often, that had disappeared along with the rest of the building, so I had some ramen at another place I used to go, and then had a beer at the “200 yen place” (although now it was 300).
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| The Hachiko statue, a frequent meeting point | One of Shibuya’s main streets |
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| Shibuya crossing | Walking around |
More pics in my flickr set: 2008-AsiaTrip-03-Tokyo .
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